Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:33:16 -0700 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files. |
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> I completely agree that existing kevent interface is not the best, so > I'm opened for any suggestions. > Should kevent creation/removing/modification be separated too?
Yeah, I think so.
>>> Hmm, it looks like I'm lost here... >> Yeah, it seems my description might not have sunk in :). We're giving >> userspace a way to collect events without performing a system call. > > And why do we want this?
So that event collection can be very efficient.
> How glibc is supposed to determine, that some events already fired and > such requests will return immediately, or for example how timer events > will be managed?
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That was what my previous mail was all about!
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