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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: [take28-resend_1->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling
	mechanism.
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:42:04 -0500
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On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 17:46 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:40:26AM -0500, jamal (hadi@cyberus.ca) wrote:
> > > Things like sockets/pipes can only benefit from direct kevent usage 
> > > instead of ->poll() and wrappers.
> > 
> > You should be able change it to use those schemes when it detects
> > that the kernel supports them.
> 
> I.e. stat() for each new file descriptor - note, that _you_ asked it :)

Didnt follow. Is there some issue with libevent you mean? 

cheers,
jamal