Re: and nicer too - Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 20:14:14 +0000


Charlie Krasic wrote:
> I would like to see a new kind of nonblocking flag that implies the
> use of epoll. So instead of giving O_NONBLOCK to fctnl(F_SETFL), you
> give O_NONBLOCK_EPOLL. In addition to becoming non-blocking, the
> socket is added to epoll interest set. Furthermore, if the socket is
> a "listener" socket, all connections accepted on the socket inherit
> the non-blocking status and are added automatically to the same epoll
> interest set. It's true that this can get silly though. I'd like to
> do the same with other flags, like TCP_CORK.

... and close-on-exec.

-- Jamie
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