Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:04:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: Synchronous signal delivery.. |
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> And when that's done you have some nice bonuses: > > - All event types are reported equally fast, and in a single > system call (read()). > > - The order in which events occurred is preserved. > (This is lost when you have to scan multiple queues). > > - Hierarchies of event sets of any kind are possible. > (epoll has solved the logical problems of this already). > > - Less code duplicated. > > - Adding new kinds of kernel events becomes _very_ simple.
Hmm ... using read() you'll lose the timeout capability, that IMHO is pretty nice.
- Davide
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