Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll

Davide Libenzi
2002-10-28T22:23:38Z

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Shailabh Nagar wrote:

> > Furthermore, there is some const weirdness going on, the ephttpd server has
> > a different second argument to sys_epoll_wait.
>
> You're right. The ephttpd server on Davide's page needs to add a cast
> (struct pollfd const **) to the second arg passed to sys_epoll_wait.
> The version of dphttpd used to generate the results had that fix in it.

It's true, I gave IBM the ephttpd that was using the first draft of the
interface that had a 'struct pollfd **' parameter. Later I changed the
implementation to 'struct pollfd const **' because I also changed the way
the mmap prot are used ( now mmap()ed PROT_READ only ).

- Davide