Re: Comparing the aio and epoll event frameworks.

[William Lee Irwin III]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I think this would be useful for network daemons that would like to
>> fairly schedule responses (i.e. not re-arm until a client on a given fd
>> deserves a turn again). IRC daemons would appear to be a perfect
>> candidate for such.  ...

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:37:49PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> No need.  The plain old edge triggered behavior can handle this
> nicely.

AIUI after the iospace on an fd is exhausted the event will be re-armed.
It could probably be taken and then ignored until the client deserves a
response again. Is that what you had in mind?

(Don't take this too far; I'm in hypothetical land and am not pushing for
the feature hard if at all.)

-- wli