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From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Davide,

While playing about with the new POLLRDHUP flag, I've noticed
an inconsistency, which may or may not be intentional...

When a POLLRDHUP condition occurs, epoll_wait() tells us about 
the condition, regardless of whether or not we specified 
(E)POLLRDHUPP in the 'events' flag given to epoll_ctl() 
EPOLL_CTL_ADD.  In this respect, POLLRDHUP is treated just like
POLLHUP and POLLERR.  This seems perfectly reasonable.

By contrast, poll() will only tell us that POLLRDHUP occurred
if we specified POLLRDHUP in the file descriptor 'events' mask 
given to the poll() call.  In other words, poll() treats 
POLLRDHUP differently from POLLHUP and POLLERR.  This seems
a little strange.

Is this difference really intended?  If it is, what is the 
reason for the difference?

Cheers,

Michael

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