Re: and nicer too - Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll

Davide Libenzi
2002-10-29T02:29:05Z

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> >
> > 2) epoll must be used on non-blocking sockets only
> > (and describe the race that happens otherwise)
>
> That much is implied simply by epoll being a queue of not_ready->ready
> edge transitions. It would be good for the manual to explain this,
> but it is clearly implied by the API if you think about it.

Bert and Hanna are working on man pages right now with the aim of adding
those notes ...

- Davide