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Subject: Re: Thinking about kqueue's and pthread_cond_wait
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On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:57 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

>>
>
> kqueue/kevent already support that via EVFILT_USER, and Apple's GCD  
> depends on
> this extensively.  However, my point from my earlier post still  
> stands and I
> think it is the right way to implement something like NT's
> WaitForMultipleObjects().
>
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John:

Is this being MFC'd to 8?

I have an 8.0 machine at work where I am doing a lot of this userland  
stuff.. and the
EVFILT_USER is not present but precisely what I need.


R

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