Re: [patch, rfc] lt-epoll ( level triggered epoll ) ...

Martin Waitz (tali@admingilde.org)
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:21:22 +0100


hi :)

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:54AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > in some situations, ET simply has wrong semantics.
>
> IMO ET has perfectly nice semantics. The fact that ppl fail to understand
> it does not make it automatically wrong. If things not understood would
> have been flagged as wrong, we would be still living in caves.

if ppl don't understand an API, it usually is flawed.

but that's not the point here, i just wanted to point out that there are
situations that are easier to solve with one or the other semantics.
and there /is/ a need for level-based events.

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