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User Trigger

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Description

## Brief feature description

As a user one might want to trigger a `WaitSet` that is waiting in another thread. Currently, this would require an additional service which is only used for this intra-process trigger mechanisms which seems a bit like an overkill.

In classic iceoryx we had `UserTriggers` which we could reimplement in iceoryx2. They would be based on file descriptors, not inter-process capable and can be attached to a waitset.

iceoryx2 already has a `socketpair` abstraction we use for process local events. We could use the same base building block to realize this user trigger.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing WaitSet and socketpair abstraction used for process-local events. Compare the proposed file-descriptor-based UserTriggers with classic iceoryx UserTriggers and determine how they would attach to a WaitSet and wake a waiting thread. Done means the scope and behavior of an intra-process UserTrigger are defined and implemented with appropriate coverage.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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