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Discussion on the possible implementation of ```SIGEV_THREAD```

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Hello everyone! On Linux, there is ```struct sigevent``` that allows configuring asynchronous notification for some events (such as asynchronous input/output completion, timer expiration or message delivery on POSIX message queue)....

ChrysoliteAzalea

Per the Linux [man page](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sigprocmask.2.html), `sigprocmask(2)` is unspecified in a multithreaded process, perhapss we should make it `unsafe` due to this reason. Or we should simply remove it considering that...

SteveLauC

## What does this PR do This PR adds support for the ```mq_notify()``` API that allows a process to register for POSIX message queue notifications. ## Checklist: - [yes] I...

ChrysoliteAzalea

ModuleInitFlags is missing MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE

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For loading compressed modules, we have to pass MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE into the init_module functions, but this variant doesn't exist on the ModuleInitFlags enum (https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/blob/master/src/kmod.rs#L59-L64)

sinkingpoint

Add MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE to ModuleInitFlags bitflags

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This is needed to be able to load compressed kernel modules. ## What does this PR do ## Checklist: - [x] I have read `CONTRIBUTING.md` - [x] I have written...

sinkingpoint

Update ci.yml to add support for loongarch64

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## What does this PR do Add CI support for loongarch64 (re-implementation of #2023 ). Ioctl has been implemented in #2045 . ## Checklist: - [x] I have read `CONTRIBUTING.md`...

donmor

`recvmsg` should take `&mut [u8]` instead of `&mut Vec<u8>` for cmsg_buffer

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Currently, `recvmsg` takes a `mut cmsg_buffer: Option

erenon

## What does this PR do * This is a follow-up to #2479 for switching from `From` to `TryFrom` for conversions between `TimeSpec` and `Duration` which may underflow or overflow...

sirhcel

Re-use `MultiHeader<()>` in subsequent `recvmmsg()` calls

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## Problem Before call: > MultiHeaders { items: [mmsghdr { msg_hdr: msghdr { msg_name: 0x1, msg_namelen: 0, msg_iov: 0x5583b86edbe0, msg_iovlen: 1, msg_control: 0x5583b86edc30, msg_controllen: 32, msg_flags: 0 }, msg_len: 0...

OliverNChalk

Fix incorrect posix_spawn* error checking

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The posix_spawn functions do not use `-1` as the sentinel for errors, rather `0` is return on success and every other return value is an error. Adds a test case...

kosayoda