Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

[Jonathan Lemon]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:11:37PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > Now, next time around the loop, we get a notification for an event
> > when there is no data to read.  The application now must be prepared
> > to handle this case (meaning no blocking read() calls can be used).
> > --
> > Jonathan
> 
>       If the programmer never wants to block in a read call, he should never do a
> blocking read anyway. There's no standard that requires readability at time
> X to imply readability at time X+1.

Quite true on the surface.  But taking that statement at face value
implies that it is okay for poll() to return POLLIN on a descriptor
even if there is no data to be read.  I don't think this is the intention.
--
Jonathan
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