Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2003 17:52:03 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: Comparing the aio and epoll event frameworks. |
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On Mon, 19 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote: > >> Adding a single shot feature to epoll takes about 5 lines of code, > >> comments included :) You know how many reuqests I had ? Zero, nada. > > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:10:21PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > I thought edge triggered epoll *was* single-shot. > > - Dan > > fs/eventpoll.c suggests "epoll" stands for "eventpoll" as opposed to > "edge-triggered". Davide, did the LT additions prompt the renaming or > was this always the case?
It was both actually :) It meant event-poll and also was edge-triggered. Now you can have it level-triggered on a per-fd basis. The epoll named was not a good one from the beginning though :)
- Davide
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