Re: Unifying epoll,aio,futexes etc. (What I really want from epoll)

Dan Kegel (dank@kegel.com)
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:18:47 -0800


Davide Libenzi wrote:
>>* I'm sure everyone would agree that passing an opaque "user context"
>>pointer is necessary with each event.
>
> I asked this about a week ago. It's _trivial_ to do in epoll. I did not
> receive any feedback, so I didn't implement it. Feedback will be very much
> appreciated here ...

If it's cheap, do it! It relieves the programmer of having
to manage a fd to object lookup table.
- Dan

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