> Things were like that at one point in time, but file descriptors turn out > to introduce a huge gaping security hole with SUID programs. The problem > is that any event context is closely tied to the address space of the > thread issuing the syscalls, and file descriptors do not have this close > binding.
Can you go into that hole in more detail? > Except that you're not usually pulling a full ring worth of events at a > time, more often just one. OK, but then to wait for it you were already sleeping in the kernel, right? Clearly we should port httpd to kevents and take some measurements :) - 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
