Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:14:35 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: epoll (was Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5) |
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On 23 Oct 2002, Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote:
> > Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes: > > > Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote: > > > I may be confused, but I suspect the async poll being proposed by > > Ben only delivers absolute readiness, not changes in readiness. > > > I think epoll is worth having, even if Ben's AIO already handled > > networking properly. > > > - Dan > > Can someone remind me why poll is needed in the AIO api at all? > > How would it be used?
Maybe my understanding of AIO on Linux is limited but how would you do async accept/connect ? Will you be using std poll/select for that, and then you'll switch to AIO for read/write requests ?
- Davide
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