On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, David Schwartz wrote: > I don't see how that can be. Suppose I add fd 8 to an epoll set. > Suppose fd > 5 is a dup of fd 8. Now, I close fd 8. How can fd 8 remain in my epoll set, > since there no longer is an fd 8? Events on files registered for epoll > notification are reported by descriptor, so the set membership has to be > associated (as reflected into userspace) with the descriptor, not the file.
Eric already answered to your question (epoll deals with internal kernel objects - aka file*). I just want to answer this one for another reason. WTF is wrong with all of you Cc-list-trimmers? Could you *please* stop trimming Cc-lists? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
