> I completely agree that existing kevent interface is not the best, so > I'm opened for any suggestions. > Should kevent creation/removing/modification be separated too?
Yeah, I think so. >>> Hmm, it looks like I'm lost here... >> Yeah, it seems my description might not have sunk in :). We're giving >> userspace a way to collect events without performing a system call. > > And why do we want this? So that event collection can be very efficient. > How glibc is supposed to determine, that some events already fired and > such requests will return immediately, or for example how timer events > will be managed? ... That was what my previous mail was all about! - z - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html