Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:05:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | poll |
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Hello, Is it okay to use the 'extra' bits in the poll return value for something? In other words, is the kernel going to allow a user-space program to define some poll-bits that it waits for, these bits having been used in the driver?
If not, then I guess I have to use POLLPRI and then the listener will have to call an ioctl() function to find out what event it really was. This seems very dumb.
I have three events I need to poll for, normal data available, a mailbox message available, and another mailbox message available.
If, for instance, all the high-bits in the poll-flag are available, then I could use two for the mail-box messages. However, if the kernel uses them for something else, or ignores them, then I'm screwed and have to make extra ioctl() calls to satisfy some abitrary rules.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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