Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:51:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: async poll |
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> > In that situation, why not just add the fd to an epoll, and have the > > epoll deliver events through Ben's interface? > > Because you might need to use the aio_data facility of the iocb > interface. Because you might want to keep the kernel from > simultaneously delivering two events for the same fd to two different > threads.
Why would you want to have a single fd simultaneously handled by two different threads with all the locking issues that would arise ? I can understand loving threads but this seems to be too much :)
- Davide
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