On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:49:15PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> But there is this huge semantic overload of kevent, poll, epoll, aio,
> regular sendmsg/recv, posix aio, etc.
>
> Perhaps a clean break with the socket interface is needed. Otherwise, there
> are nasty complications with applications that mix old socket calls and new
> interface
> on the same connection.
kevent can be used as poll without any changes to the socket code.
There are two types of network related kevents - socket events
(recv/send/accept) and network aio, which can be turned completely off
in config.
There are following events which are supported by kevent:
o usual poll/select notifications
o inode notifications (create/remove)
o timer notifications
o socket notifications (send/recv/accept)
o network aio system
o fs aio (project closed, aio_sendfile() is being developed instead)
Any of the above can be turned off by config option.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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