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Those names made me expect a new OS primitive like signalfd/eventfd/timerfd/userfaultfd, but that's not what they are at all.
by josephcsible 2y ago
Those names made me expect a new OS primitive like signalfd/eventfd/timerfd/userfaultfd, but that's not what they are at all.
- the_mitsuhiko 2y agoIndeed. That's just my pretty terrible skills for naming striking again. "systemfd" is supposed to be a pun on "systemd" since the socket activation protocol is basically the same, and "listenfd" is supposed to mean "listen from an fd passed".