Re: [take25 1/6] kevent: Description.
From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 17:36:09 EST
Hans Henrik Happe wrote:
I don't know if this falls under the simplification, but wouldn't there be a
race when reading/copying the event data? I guess this could be solved with
an extra user index.
That's what I said, reading the value from the ring buffer structure's
head would be racy. All this can only work for single threaded code.
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