Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:21:22 +0100 | From | Martin Waitz <> | Subject | Re: [patch, rfc] lt-epoll ( level triggered epoll ) ... |
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hi :)
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:54AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > in some situations, ET simply has wrong semantics. > > IMO ET has perfectly nice semantics. The fact that ppl fail to understand > it does not make it automatically wrong. If things not understood would > have been flagged as wrong, we would be still living in caves.
if ppl don't understand an API, it usually is flawed.
but that's not the point here, i just wanted to point out that there are situations that are easier to solve with one or the other semantics. and there /is/ a need for level-based events.
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