Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:27:02 -0500 | From | Jonathan Lemon <> | Subject | Re: kqueue microbenchmark results |
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:11:37PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > Now, next time around the loop, we get a notification for an event > > when there is no data to read. The application now must be prepared > > to handle this case (meaning no blocking read() calls can be used). > > -- > > Jonathan > > If the programmer never wants to block in a read call, he should never do a > blocking read anyway. There's no standard that requires readability at time > X to imply readability at time X+1.
Quite true on the surface. But taking that statement at face value implies that it is okay for poll() to return POLLIN on a descriptor even if there is no data to be read. I don't think this is the intention. -- Jonathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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