Re: [xmonad] exiting: asking for confirmation (or a four-key combination)

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 13:58, Ferenc Wagner wrote:

Brandon Allbery writes:

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More generally, Unix/POSIX lacks a good event-based interface which can detect non-file-like events; many things map to signals, which can be sort of handled gracefully with some hackery in C but are not handled particularly well by GHC's runtime.

I guess you miss the Linux-only signalfd/eventfd, right?

"Linux-only" is the problem there. I know Linux folk like to imagine they define Unix and POSIX, but there are others out there still. Same problem with BSD's kqueue: I can't use it on Linux and only to a limited extent on OS X which has still another mechanism of its own (Mach ports). It's the *portable* general event interface that is missing. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms