Re: async poll

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:51:21 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Gardiner Myers wrote:

> > In that situation, why not just add the fd to an epoll, and have the
> > epoll deliver events through Ben's interface?
>
> Because you might need to use the aio_data facility of the iocb
> interface. Because you might want to keep the kernel from
> simultaneously delivering two events for the same fd to two different
> threads.

Why would you want to have a single fd simultaneously handled by two
different threads with all the locking issues that would arise ? I can
understand loving threads but this seems to be too much :)

- Davide

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