Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:33:56 -0700 | From | John Gardiner Myers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5 |
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
>All APIs have their own specifications and if you do not follow them, or >you're using a different interfacing just because the name looks similar >to other APIs, you're going to have problems. The problem it's not inside >the API but inside the user ... > > The epoll API is deficient--it is subtly error prone and it forces work on user space that is better done in the kernel. That the API is specified in a deficient way does not make it any less deficient.
Again, there is no rational justification for the kernel to not test the condition upon registration. There is ample justification for it to do so.
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