Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263894AbTHFOkp (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:40:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263930AbTHFOko (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:40:44 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:13699 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263894AbTHFOkk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:40:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:40:39 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Polling large file descriptor sets Message-ID: <20030806144039.GA13363@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <87y8ybw52d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y8ybw52d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 16 Florian Weimer wrote: > It seems that /dev/epoll support will be included in 2.6. Is this the > official way to solve the problem, or is there another, preferred > interface I have missed? Is the current /dev/epoll edge-triggered or > level-triggered? /dev/epoll is not included, but a similar interface using system calls, also called epoll, is provided. The new interface does both edge-triggering and level-triggering, as requested. -- Jamie - 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/