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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:56:47PM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:

> needing only one syscall per poll while building a changelist in
> userspace...

Which is so smashingly succesful for iptables. I would very much doubt the
utility of building tables in userspace and them blasting them across,
especially as they will tend to be large when people bother to use epoll.

Regards,

bert

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