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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Subject: Re: [take25 1/6] kevent: Description.
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:31:00 +0300
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 07:14:06PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:
> If kernel has put data asynchronously it will setup special flag, thus 
> kevent_wait() will not sleep and will return, so thread will check new
> entries and process them.

For the clarification - only kevent_wait() updates index, userspace
will not detect that it has changed after thread has put there new
data.
In case kernel thread will updated index too, you are correct,
kevent_wait() should get index as parameter.

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	Evgeniy Polyakov