From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:27:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:27:39 -0500 Received: from ife.ee.ethz.ch ([129.132.29.2]:64344 "EHLO ife.ee.ethz.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:27:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0179BC.670CEE77@ife.ee.ethz.ch> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 15:27:08 +0100 From: Thomas Sailer Organization: IfE X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: de,fr,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Poll and OSS API In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > The specification is bogus and should be fixed. select() is not Don't tell me, I didn't write that spec. > side-affects is patently wrong. ioctl() was designed to control > things. It already exists, ioctl(fd, SNDCTL_DSP_SETTRIGGER, PCM_ENABLE_INPUT). If we officially declare the poll/select side effect to be unacceptable, I'm happy with it, as my sound drivers already work that way 8-) Tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/