On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> >>>The interface ( edge-triggered ) is quite different and we saw in the
> >>>previous experience how this might lead to confusion for the user. Putting
> >>>epoll bits inside poll.h will IMHO increase this.
> >>
> >>The only difference is the edge-triggered nature, though, right?
> >
> > Yes, but we have seen that it's enough :)
>
> I'm not so sure. If the epoll documentation were clear enough
> (which at the moment, frankly, it isn't), I think
> there's a good chance users would not be confused
> by the difference between level-triggered and edge-triggered
> events.
>
> I'd be happy to contribute better doc... has the man page
> for sys_epoll been written yet?
Yep, by a long time :)
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll.2
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll_create.2
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll_ctl.2
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll_wait.2
it is going to change though with the latest talks about the interface.
- Davide
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