Re: epoll (was Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5)

[John G. Myers]

On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 06:27  PM, Tervel Atanassov wrote:
>  The code you have
> below seems a bit awkward -- the line while(do_io(fd) != EAGAIN) 
> appears
> twice.  I think the reason for that is that you're trying to do too 
> many
> things at once, namely, you're trying to handle both the initial
> accept/setup of the socket and its steady state servicing.  I don't see
> any benefit to that -- it definitely doesn't make for cleaner code.  
> Why
> not do things separately.

If you carefully reread the message you replied to, you will see that 
this is exactly what I am proposing.  The redundant copy of the line 
you consider awkward would be removed.