Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:30:28 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: async poll |
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:
> John Gardiner Myers wrote: > > > > Dan Kegel 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. > > Presumably epoll_add could be enhanced to let user specify a user data > word.
It'll take 2 minutes to do such a thing. Actually the pollfd struct contains the "events" field that is wasted when returning events and it could be used for something more useful.
- Davide
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