Re: [rfc] epoll interface change and glibc bits ...

From: Mark Mielke (mark@mark.mielke.cc)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 03:01:53 EST

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:04:33PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > The `fd' field, on the other hand, is not guaranteed to correspond
> > with the correct file descriptor number. So.... perhaps the structure
> > should contain an `obj' field and _no_ `fd' field?
> > ...
> It's OK. I agree. We can remove the fd from inside the structure and have :
> struct epoll_event {
> unsigned short events;
> unsigned short revents;
> __uint64_t obj;
> };

Forget any argument I had against removing 'fd'. This sounds good.

Perhaps 'obj' should be named 'userdata'?

     struct epoll_event {
         unsigned short events;
         unsigned short revents;
         __uint64_t userdata;
     };

mark 

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