Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@biederman.org)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 02:26:23 EST


Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> It's harder to write correct programs that use edge-triggered events.

Huh? The race between when an event is reported, and when you take action
on it effectively means all events are edge triggered.

So making the interface clearly edge triggered seems to be a win for
correctness.

Eric
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