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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:48:07 -0700
From: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?
To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@biederman.org>,
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Jim Gettys wrote:
> So I want an interface in which I can get as many events as possible
> at once, and one in which the events themselves can have appropriate
> aggregation behavior.  It isn't quite clear to me if the proposed interface
> would have this property.

I believe get_event, /dev/poll, and kqueue all share this property.  
e.g. none of them will present multiple POLLIN events per fd per call.  
Is that what you meant?

- Dan
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