On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Zach Brown wrote:
> > Since I still think that the many-thousands potential async operations
> > coming from network sockets are better handled with a classical event
> > machanism [1], and since smooth integration of new async syscall into the
> > standard POSIX infrastructure is IMO a huge win, I think we need to have a
> > "bridge" to allow async completions being detectable through a pollable
> > (by the mean of select/poll/epoll whatever) device.
>
> Ugh, I'd rather not if we don't have to.
>
> It seems like you could get this behaviour from issuing a
> poll/select(really?)/epoll as one of the async calls to complete. (And you
> mention this in a later email? :))
Yes, no need for the above. We can just host a poll/epoll in an async()
operation, and demultiplex once that gets ready.
- Davide
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