Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5

[Shailabh Nagar]

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
>>Something like this might work :
>>
>>int sys_epoll_create(int maxfds);
>>void sys_epoll_close(int epd);
>>int sys_epoll_wait(int epd, struct pollfd **pevts, int timeout);
>>
>>where sys_epoll_wait() return the number of events available, 0 for
>>timeout, -1 for error.
> 
> 
> There's no reason to make epoll_wait a new syscall -- poll events can 
> easily be returned via the aio_complete mechanism (with the existing 
> aio_poll experiment as a possible means for doing so).

So a user would setup an ioctx  and use io_getevents to retrieve events on
an interest set of fds created and manipulated through the new system calls ?

-- Shailabh