On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:04:33PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > > The `fd' field, on the other hand, is not guaranteed to correspond
> > > with the correct file descriptor number. So.... perhaps the structure
> > > should contain an `obj' field and _no_ `fd' field?
> > > ...
> > It's OK. I agree. We can remove the fd from inside the structure and have :
> > struct epoll_event {
> > unsigned short events;
> > unsigned short revents;
> > __uint64_t obj;
> > };
>
> Forget any argument I had against removing 'fd'. This sounds good.
>
> Perhaps 'obj' should be named 'userdata'?
>
> struct epoll_event {
> unsigned short events;
> unsigned short revents;
> __uint64_t userdata;
> };
Do we want to have a union instead of a direct 64bit int ?
- Davide
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