Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:50:48 -0400

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:38:53PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> So I guess the question would now be: whats keeping /dev/epoll from
> being included in the kernel given the time left before the feature freeze ?

We don't need yet another event reporting mechanism as /dev/epoll presents.
I was thinking it should just be its own syscall but report its events in
the same way as aio.

-ben

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