A whirlwind tour of changes in the Linux 2.6.x system call API

What am I doing here?

Presentation Approach

Nuts and Bolts

Main topics

epoll: monitoring file descriptors

Extended Attributes: associating arbitrary metadata with files

inotify: monitoring file system events

POSIX timers

POSIX message queues

If we have time

New Transport Layer Protocols

POSIX semaphores for interprocess synchronization

pselect(2)

Resource limits

waitid(2)

Miscellaneous

(C) 2006, Michael Kerrisk