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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:14:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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To: "Charles 'Buck' Krasic" <krasic@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: epoll (was Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5)
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On 23 Oct 2002, Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote:

>
> Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes:
>
> > Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
>
> > I may be confused, but I suspect the async poll being proposed by
> > Ben only delivers absolute readiness, not changes in readiness.
>
> > I think epoll is worth having, even if Ben's AIO already handled
> > networking properly.
>
> > - Dan
>
> Can someone remind me why poll is needed in the AIO api at all?
>
> How would it be used?

Maybe my understanding of AIO on Linux is limited but how would you do
async accept/connect ? Will you be using std poll/select for that, and
then you'll switch to AIO for read/write requests ?



- Davide






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