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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 20:14:14 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Charlie Krasic <krasic@acm.org>
Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
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Subject: Re: and nicer too - Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll
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Charlie Krasic wrote:
> I would like to see a new kind of nonblocking flag that implies the
> use of epoll.  So instead of giving O_NONBLOCK to fctnl(F_SETFL), you
> give O_NONBLOCK_EPOLL.  In addition to becoming non-blocking, the
> socket is added to epoll interest set.  Furthermore, if the socket is
> a "listener" socket, all connections accepted on the socket inherit
> the non-blocking status and are added automatically to the same epoll
> interest set.  It's true that this can get silly though.  I'd like to
> do the same with other flags, like TCP_CORK.

... and close-on-exec.

-- Jamie
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