Re: epoll question

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Vadim Lobanov wrote:

> I have a quick question about the behavior of epoll. My usage scenario is 
> as follows:
> 
> I add multiple fd's to the epoll set. Some of the fd's will have a lot of 
> data coming in, while others will have noticeably less.
> I start to epoll for events, only letting it return one event at a time
> 
> In this case, will the lesser-active fd's be starved out by the 
> constantly-active fd's, or will they still be reliably seen?

Nope, even if you extract one fd at a time (???) the itam will be removed 
from head and, if LT or ET and another event will come soon after, it will 
be tail queued.


- Davide

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