Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Sat Jul 29 2006 - 11:42:26 EST


On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:38:02PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper (drepper@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Zach Brown wrote:
> > Ulrich, would you be satisfied if we didn't
> > have the userspace mapped ring on the first pass and only had a
> > collection syscall?
>
> I'm not the one to make a call but why rush things? Let's do it right
> from the start. Later changes can only lead to problems with users of
> the earlier interface.

Btw, why do we want mapped ring of ready events?
If user requestd some event, he definitely wants to get them back when
they are ready, and not to check and then get them?
Could you please explain more on this issue?

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>



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Evgeniy Polyakov
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