On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 1. Fwiw, I would really like to see epoll extended beyond fds, to a more
> general edge-triggered event collector - signals, timers, aios. I've
> written about this before as you know (but been too busy lately to
> pursue the idea). I'm not going to say any more about this until I
> have time to code something...
Anything that "exposes" a file* interface that support f_op->poll() is
usable with epoll. File rocks !! :)
> 2. I don't like the "int64_t" proposal because there is no
> language guarantee that 64 bits is enough to hold a pointer - and
> of course, a pointer is what many applications will store in it.
I know, but we should be covered for another 8-10 years with 64 bits :)
- Davide
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