If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

[Дамјан Георгиевски]

> So do all these OSes have some kind of __mega_unifying_poll system
> call that works for anything that might possibly block, that you can
> exploit from a user process?

On Linux at least, the select/poll/epoll is that system, the trick is to 
use eventfd, timerfd and signalfd which are Linux specific system calls.

I think that covers everything needed. (eventfd is used for semaphores)


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