Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex

From: Davide Libenzi
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 13:30:34 EST


On Wed, 2 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> > It simple as is, there is no need to overdesign.
>
> There is no reason to go with a limited, too-simple minded design if
> we've already identified a much better design. The fact that poll is
> used today does not excuse piling on more and more code which makes
> additional functions which don't fit into the poll framework barely
> work. Plus, poll/epoll itself is a problem.

Is it? Please do tell me more...


- Davide


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