Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:41:20 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [take9 2/2] kevent: poll/select() notifications. Timer notifications. |
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:40:32PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > What speaks against a patch the recplaces the epoll core by something that > > build on kevent while still supporting the epoll interface as a compatibility > > shim? > > There is no problem from my side, but epoll and kevent_poll differs on > some aspects, so it can be better to not replace them for a while.
Please explain the differences and why they are important. We really shouldn't keep on adding code without beeing able to replace older bits. If there's a really good reason we can keep things separate, but
"epoll and kevent_poll differs on some aspects"
is not one :)
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