Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:05:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5 |
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> Nonetheless, the requirement for user space to test the condition after > the registration, not before, is subtle. A program which does these in > the wrong order is still likely to pass QA and will fail in production > in a way that will be difficult to diagnose. There is no rational > reason for the kernel to not test the condition upon registration.
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 ...
- Davide
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