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

What am I doing here?

Presentation Approach

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

Resource limits

Miscellaneous

© 2006, Michael Kerrisk