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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:15:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: [rfc] epoll interface change and glibc bits ...
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:05:32AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >
> > 1) epoll's event structure extension
> >
> > I received quite a few request to extend the event structure to have space
> > for an opaque user data object. The eventpoll event structure will turn to
> > be :
> >
> > struct epollfd {
> > 	int fd;
> > 	unsigned short int events, revents;
> > 	unsigned long obj;
>
> Cannot this be uint64_t obj; ?
> Have mercy with 32<->64 bit translation layers in the kernel.

Maybe this :

typedef void *epoll_obj_t;




- Davide


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