Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

[Eric W. Biederman]

Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It's harder to write correct programs that use edge-triggered events.

Huh? The race between when an event is reported, and when you take action 
on it effectively means all events are edge triggered. 

So making the interface clearly edge triggered seems to be a win for
correctness.

Eric
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