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From: "bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org> To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug libc/30287] New: sigevent needs a notification method compatible with poll Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:54:32 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <bug-30287-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw) https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30287 Bug ID: 30287 Summary: sigevent needs a notification method compatible with poll Product: glibc Version: unspecified Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: libc Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org Reporter: bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk CC: drepper.fsp at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- I was recently trying to use `getaddrinfo_a()` to do asynchronous name lookups in a library (GLib), and found that tying it in with a `poll()`/`epoll()`-based main loop was quite hard. sigevent currently provides two notification mechanisms: `SIGEV_SIGNAL` and `SIGEV_THREAD` (I’m ignoring `SIGEV_THREAD_ID` because it’s basically just a signal). `SIGEV_SIGNAL` is not usable from libraries because to do so requires modifying the process’ signal mask, which could impact on code outside the library, or on spawned subprocesses. `SIGEV_THREAD` spawns a new thread (via `pthread_create()`) for every return from `getaddrinfo_a()`, which works but is not very performant. Would it be possible to add an additional notification mechanism which writes to a given FD, or something like that? Then that could easily be integrated into the `poll()`-based main loop which is common to many libraries (particularly those built around GLib, but also others) by passing one half of a `pipe()` to sigevent. Or perhaps another notification mechanism which just calls a provided function and passes it an arbitrary user-supplied context pointer, and makes no guarantees about the function execution context/thread? Then the user-supplied function can do whatever it needs to to call back into the rest of the user code in a thread-safe manner. This would be like `SIGEV_THREAD`, but calling the user-provided function without `pthread_create()` first. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
next reply other threads:[~2023-03-29 15:54 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2023-03-29 15:54 bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk [this message] 2023-04-02 19:16 ` [Bug libc/30287] " fw at deneb dot enyo.de 2023-04-25 17:11 ` bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk 2023-04-25 17:16 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2023-05-15 14:40 ` bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
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