Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:59:45 -0400 | From | Shailabh Nagar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5 |
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > >>Something like this might work : >> >>int sys_epoll_create(int maxfds); >>void sys_epoll_close(int epd); >>int sys_epoll_wait(int epd, struct pollfd **pevts, int timeout); >> >>where sys_epoll_wait() return the number of events available, 0 for >>timeout, -1 for error. > > > There's no reason to make epoll_wait a new syscall -- poll events can > easily be returned via the aio_complete mechanism (with the existing > aio_poll experiment as a possible means for doing so).
So a user would setup an ioctx and use io_getevents to retrieve events on an interest set of fds created and manipulated through the new system calls ?
-- Shailabh
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