Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Abramo Bagnara wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >         struct event {
> >                 int fd;
> >                 unsigned long mask;
> >                 void *opaque;
> >                 void (*event_fn)(ind fd, unsigned long mask, void *opaque);
> 
> My experience say that:
> 
>               unsigned long rmask;
>               void (*event_fn)(struct event *event);
> 
> is a far better solution (more type safe, more descriptive).

You're probably right. It certainly makes it easier to add fields later on
if we'd want to extend the ID part without having to change old users..

                Linus

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