Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
>>Something like this might work :
>>
>>int sys_epoll_create(int maxfds);
>>void sys_epoll_close(int epd);
>>int sys_epoll_wait(int epd, struct pollfd **pevts, int timeout);
>>
>>where sys_epoll_wait() return the number of events available, 0 for
>>timeout, -1 for error.
>
>
> There's no reason to make epoll_wait a new syscall -- poll events can
> easily be returned via the aio_complete mechanism (with the existing
> aio_poll experiment as a possible means for doing so).
So a user would setup an ioctx and use io_getevents to retrieve events on
an interest set of fds created and manipulated through the new system calls ?
-- Shailabh
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