Re: poll

[Ben Greear]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
> Is it okay to use the 'extra' bits in the poll return value for
> something? In other words, is the kernel going to allow a user-space
> program to define some poll-bits that it waits for, these bits
> having been used in the driver?

Can't you just do a read and determine from the results of the read
what you actually got?  If not, add framing to your message so that
you *CAN* determine one message type from another...

Ben

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