Re: Comparing the aio and epoll event frameworks.

From: Dan Kegel (dank@kegel.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 20:22:59 EST


Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>
>>Davide Libenzi wrote:
>>
>>>Adding a single shot feature to epoll takes about 5 lines of code,
>>>comments included :) You know how many reuqests I had ? Zero, nada.
>>
>>I thought edge triggered epoll *was* single-shot.
>
>
> For single shot I mean that once you receive one event, you will not
> receive more events for that fd if you do not rearm it. Suppose you
> receive 1000 bytes of data and you get an event (EPOLLIN). If after 10
> seconds you receive another 1000 bytes, you will receive another event.
> This is not single shot.

Oh, ok. I much prefer plain old edge triggered, anyway. It does
the right thing with less fuss.
- Dan

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