Proposal: a revoke() system call

[Sergey Babkin]

>> My thinking has been that if close() wakes them up, then things would be
>> inherited from there. The thing I didn't know is that apparently in many cases close()
>> doesn't wake them up.
>> 
>> -SB
>> 
>
>In cases where I need to wake the select() up immediately for cases such
>as this, I've implemented a "trigger pipe" that I include on the select
>list. This is a simple pipe, that is written to by the application in

Yep, This is the design I'm trying to avoid :-)

-SB