Re: Timings for optimised poll(2)
Darren Reed (darrenr@cyber.com.au)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:53:59 +1000 (EST)
In some mail I received from Richard Gooch, sie wrote
[...]
> However, what do you think of my idea to add a poll_event field to the
> file struct so we can avoid calling those damn indirect poll
> functions? Will people accept yet another change to the polling
> interface? I'd consider starting to code up a patch to provide the
> basics if I knew the idea would not be rejected :-)
If you can do it without needing an #ifdef linux in everyone's code
to take advatage of it then maybe it is a good idea. Maybe then
someone would write a poll(3) which used poll2(2) but has the
same interface as poll(2) :)