⏴ Back to all articles Published on 2024-11-10 Table of contents What are we building? First way: old-school sigsuspend Second way: sigtimedwait Third approach: Self-pipe trick A simpler self-pipe trick Fourth approach: Linux's signalfd Fifth approach: process descriptors Sixth approach: MacOS's and BSD's kqueue A parenthesis: libkqueue Another parenthesis: Solaris/Illumos's ports Seventh approach: Linux's io_uring Conclusion Addendum: The code Windows is not covered at all in this article. Disc...