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From: Adam Langley <alangley@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Edge triggered epoll with pts devices acts as level triggered
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:30:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <396556a20508121030de9b49d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <396556a20508120419238abca6@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/12/05, Adam Langley <alangley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Waiting for edge triggered events (with EPOLLET) on pseudo terminal
> devices appears to act as if it were level triggered; when data is
> ready the fd is always returned by epoll_wait.

This occurs because writing to the terminal happens to cause a read
event to occur for pseudo terminals, but not for real terminals. This
is much less of a problem than the orginal message would suggest.


AGL

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-12 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-12 11:19 Edge triggered epoll with pts devices acts as level triggered Adam Langley
2005-08-12 17:30 ` Adam Langley [this message]
2005-08-13 10:30 ` Heikki Orsila

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