William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I think this would be useful for network daemons that would like to
>> fairly schedule responses (i.e. not re-arm until a client on a given fd
>> deserves a turn again). IRC daemons would appear to be a perfect
>> candidate for such. ...
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:37:49PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> No need. The plain old edge triggered behavior can handle this
> nicely.
AIUI after the iospace on an fd is exhausted the event will be re-armed.
It could probably be taken and then ignored until the client deserves a
response again. Is that what you had in mind?
(Don't take this too far; I'm in hypothetical land and am not pushing for
the feature hard if at all.)
-- wli
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