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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:

> John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> >
> > Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> >> In that situation, why not just add the fd to an epoll, and have the
> >> epoll deliver events through Ben's interface?
> >
> >
> > Because you might need to use the aio_data facility of the iocb
> > interface.
>
> Presumably epoll_add could be enhanced to let user specify a user data
> word.

It'll take 2 minutes to do such a thing. Actually the pollfd struct
contains the "events" field that is wasted when returning events and it
could be used for something more useful.



- Davide


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