On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Zach Brown wrote: > > Since I still think that the many-thousands potential async operations > > coming from network sockets are better handled with a classical event > > machanism [1], and since smooth integration of new async syscall into the > > standard POSIX infrastructure is IMO a huge win, I think we need to have a > > "bridge" to allow async completions being detectable through a pollable > > (by the mean of select/poll/epoll whatever) device. > > Ugh, I'd rather not if we don't have to. > > It seems like you could get this behaviour from issuing a > poll/select(really?)/epoll as one of the async calls to complete. (And you > mention this in a later email? :))
Yes, no need for the above. We can just host a poll/epoll in an async() operation, and demultiplex once that gets ready. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
