Re: [take25 1/6] kevent: Description.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Fri Nov 24 2006 - 11:33:06 EST


On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 07:14:06PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> If kernel has put data asynchronously it will setup special flag, thus
> kevent_wait() will not sleep and will return, so thread will check new
> entries and process them.

For the clarification - only kevent_wait() updates index, userspace
will not detect that it has changed after thread has put there new
data.
In case kernel thread will updated index too, you are correct,
kevent_wait() should get index as parameter.

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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