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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: epoll_wait() returns wrong events for EOF with EPOLLOUT
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.

Thanks,
Chase
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