From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:25:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:25:05 -0400 Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net ([24.130.1.15]:12015 "EHLO lsmls02.we.mediaone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:24:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA83A3D.EBB1C568@kegel.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:25:01 -0700 From: Dan Kegel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Davide Libenzi Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/epoll update ... In-Reply-To: <3BA80108.C830D602@kegel.com> 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 Dan Kegel wrote: > 1. it would be very nice to be able to expand the interest list > without affecting the currently ready list. In fact, this may > be needed to support existing programs. A quick look at > your code gives me the impression that it would be easy to add > a ioctl(kdpfd, EP_REALLOC, newmaxfds) call to do this. Do you agree? Aw, crap, nevermind. Since when you expand the interest list you can double it, this happens so seldom it doesn't matter that you have to do EP_FREE + EP_ALLOC + EP_POLL. I stand by my other two requests, though (the uniform naming convention and hands off poll.h). - Dan