Re: [PATCH] EPOLL_CTL_SET operatin for epoll_ctl when usingEPOLLONESHOT

From: Davide Libenzi
Date: Thu Sep 24 2009 - 19:46:46 EST


On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:

> Simplify userspace by eliminating the need to track whether a specific
> filehandle was added to epoll already and only needs to be re-arm
> after being internally disabled by EPOLLONESHOT.
>
> EPOLL_CLT_SET can be used to add or modify a filehandle in epoll
> using the kernel's internal tracking to apply the right equivalent
> operation to EPOLL_CTL_ADD or EPOLL_CTL_MOD.

Applications (except poorly written ones) usually know what's in the
epoll set and what's not, in their bookkeeping.
I'm sorry, but I see no use of this code.



- Davide


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