Marsh RayMar 25

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.

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@marshray maybe they don't care a great deal. That's not a big or disfunction.
Mar 25 at 7:44pmWeb
Show threadMarsh RayMar 25

@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.