Provide wrapper for eventfd

[tiran]

BPO	41001
Nosy	@tiran
PRs	bpo-41001: Add os.eventfd() #20930

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closed_at = <Date 2020-11-13.18:49:17.968>
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labels = ['extension-modules', 'type-feature', 'library', '3.10']
title = 'Provide wrapper for eventfd'
updated_at = <Date 2021-08-07.04:51:45.767>
user = 'https://github.com/tiran'

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[tiran]

eventfd is a Linux syscall that returns a file descriptor for event/notify systems. I propse to add a simple eventfd(initval, flags) function that is a wrapper around glibc's eventfd abstraction layer. High level notify and semaphores can then be implemented in pure Python.

See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/eventfd.2.html for more details

See https://bugs.python.org/issue40485 for a use case.

[tiran]

New changeset cd9fed6 by Christian Heimes in branch 'master':
bpo-41001: Add os.eventfd() (bpo-20930)
cd9fed6