On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> > In that situation, why not just add the fd to an epoll, and have the
> > epoll deliver events through Ben's interface?
>
> Because you might need to use the aio_data facility of the iocb
> interface. Because you might want to keep the kernel from
> simultaneously delivering two events for the same fd to two different
> threads.
Why would you want to have a single fd simultaneously handled by two
different threads with all the locking issues that would arise ? I can
understand loving threads but this seems to be too much :)
- Davide
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