Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:37:37 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Shailabh Nagar wrote:

> > Furthermore, there is some const weirdness going on, the ephttpd server has
> > a different second argument to sys_epoll_wait.
>
> You're right. The ephttpd server on Davide's page needs to add a cast
> (struct pollfd const **) to the second arg passed to sys_epoll_wait.
> The version of dphttpd used to generate the results had that fix in it.

It's true, I gave IBM the ephttpd that was using the first draft of the
interface that had a 'struct pollfd **' parameter. Later I changed the
implementation to 'struct pollfd const **' because I also changed the way
the mmap prot are used ( now mmap()ed PROT_READ only ).

- Davide

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