That WINE had to resort to a heroic custom kernel driver to efficiently implement `WaitForMultipleObjects()` (Windows NT/95) points to a deeper problem with the Linux kernel’s design or governance.
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That WINE had to resort to a heroic custom kernel driver to efficiently implement `WaitForMultipleObjects()` (Windows NT/95) points to a deeper problem with the Linux kernel’s design or governance.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MK2k/116291170000529656
That WINE had to resort to a heroic custom kernel driver to efficiently implement `WaitForMultipleObjects()` (Windows NT/95) points to a deeper problem with the Linux kernel’s design or governance.
@marshray maybe they don't care a great deal. That's not a big or disfunction.
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@marshray maybe they don't care a great deal. That's not a big or disfunction.
@rsalz Like `select()`, but for synchronization primitives in addition to I/O handles
Maybe you want a message processing loop that can also respond to a global shutdown event?
And it actually returns the index of the evented object.
Crazy, I know.
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