Re: Unifying epoll,aio,futexes etc. (What I really want from epoll)

Mark Mielke (mark@mark.mielke.cc)
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:55:35 -0500


On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:27:41PM -0800, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> There's also the oddity that I noticed this week: pipes don't report
> POLLOUT readiness through the classic poll interface until the pipe's
> buffer is completely empty. Changing this to report POLLOUT readiness
> when the pipe's buffer is not full apparently causes NIS to break.

These seems deficient. Does this mean that pipes managed via poll() are
not able to maximum throughput?

mark

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