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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: thockin@sun.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: poll change
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:08:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010815020835.E4304@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B79B5F3.C816CBED@sun.com> <20010814.163804.66057702.davem@redhat.com> <3B79BA07.B57634FD@sun.com> <20010814.165320.77058794.davem@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010814.165320.77058794.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:53:20PM -0700

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:53:20PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> invalid fds.  The behavior is identical both before and after
> your change, so there is no reason to make it.

actually I can see a case where it makes difference: if you sends 1024
entries to poll with the last entry of the array polling for one of the
allocated file descriptors (all previous 1023 entries are negative) and
the last fd allocated is ID 255.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-15  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3B79B381.58266C13@sun.com>
     [not found] ` <20010814.162710.131914269.davem@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <3B79B5F3.C816CBED@sun.com>
     [not found]     ` <20010814.163804.66057702.davem@redhat.com>
2001-08-14 23:53       ` RFC: poll change Tim Hockin
2001-08-14 23:53         ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:08           ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-08-15  0:09           ` Tim Hockin
2001-08-15  0:06             ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:11         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:16           ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:30             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:34             ` [PATCH] agreed upon " Tim Hockin
2001-08-15  0:32               ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 14:13             ` RFC: " Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15 14:24               ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 14:32                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15 16:30                   ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-15 16:40                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-14 21:08 Tim Hockin
2001-08-14 21:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-14 22:38   ` Herbert Xu
2001-08-14 22:42     ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:03       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:06         ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:16           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:23             ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 10:40       ` David Schwartz

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