Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5

From: Shailabh Nagar (nagar@watson.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 13:18:57 EST


Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
>
>>On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:38:53PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
>>
>>>So I guess the question would now be: whats keeping /dev/epoll from
>>>being included in the kernel given the time left before the feature freeze ?
>>
>>We don't need yet another event reporting mechanism as /dev/epoll presents.
>>I was thinking it should just be its own syscall but report its events in
>>the same way as aio.
>
>
> Yes, Linus ( like myself ) hates magic inodes inside /dev. At that time it
> was the fastest way to have a kernel interface exposed w/out having to beg
> for a syscall. I'm all for a new syscall obviously, and IMHO /dev/epoll
> might be a nice complement to AIO for specific applications.

So what would the syscall look like ? Could you give a few more details on the interface ?

- Shailabh

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