Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 14:02:01 EST


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).

                -ben
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