Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:22:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:22:36 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com ([204.127.202.62]:38084 "EHLO sccrmhc02.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:22:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD97D4D.3010801@kegel.com> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:52:45 -0800 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) X-Accept-Language: de-de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davide Libenzi CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [rfc] epoll interface change and glibc bits ... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 961 Lines: 26 Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Dan Kegel wrote: > >>>The interface ( edge-triggered ) is quite different and we saw in the >>>previous experience how this might lead to confusion for the user. Putting >>>epoll bits inside poll.h will IMHO increase this. >> >>The only difference is the edge-triggered nature, though, right? > > Yes, but we have seen that it's enough :) I'm not so sure. If the epoll documentation were clear enough (which at the moment, frankly, it isn't), I think there's a good chance users would not be confused by the difference between level-triggered and edge-triggered events. I'd be happy to contribute better doc... has the man page for sys_epoll been written yet? - Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/