Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:27:47 -0500 (CDT) | From | Chase Venters <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: epoll_wait() returns wrong events for EOF with EPOLLOUT |
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Michael Lindner wrote:
> Also a minor issue - epoll_ctl doesn't check if the fd in events.data.fd > is the same as the fd that's been passed in as argument 3. If they differ > (due to programmer error), epoll_wait will return an event with the > incorrect events.data.fd specified to epoll_ctl().
This is expected behavior. events.data is a union. It is not possible or desireable to test data.fd in epoll_ctl() because it would break /many/ users of epoll who use the 32 or 64 bit unsigned field or pointer instead of fd.
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