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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:55:35 -0500
From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: John Gardiner Myers <jgmyers@netscape.com>
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Subject: Re: Unifying epoll,aio,futexes etc. (What I really want from epoll)
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:27:41PM -0800, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> There's also the oddity that I noticed this week: pipes don't report 
> POLLOUT readiness through the classic poll interface until the pipe's 
> buffer is completely empty.  Changing this to report POLLOUT readiness 
> when the pipe's buffer is not full apparently causes NIS to break.

These seems deficient. Does this mean that pipes managed via poll() are
not able to maximum throughput?

mark

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