Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:10:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | re: [patch] sys_epoll ... |
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Davide wrote: > >asmlinkage int sys_epoll_create(int maxfds); > >asmlinkage int sys_epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, unsigned int events); > >asmlinkage int sys_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct pollfd **events, int timeout); > > Hey Davide, > I've always been a bit bothered by the need to specify maxfds in > advance. What's the preferred way to handle the situation > where you guess wrong on the value of maxfds? Create a new > epoll and register all the old fds with it? (Sounds like > a good job for a userspace wrapper library.)
I'm currently looking at doing it automatically, w/out the need of specifying it. I don't like it either ...
> Regardless, thanks for pushing /dev/epoll along towards inclusion > in 2.5. I'm looking forward to seeing it it integrated. > Even if the interface doesn't please everyone, the performance > should...
You should thank Hanna Linder that bugged Linus way more than I did :)
- Davide
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