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Diffstat (limited to 'ev_epoll.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | ev_epoll.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * libev epoll fd activity backend * - * Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009 Marc Alexander Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de> + * Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009,2010 Marc Alexander Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de> * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica- @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ * c) the inability to handle fork or file descriptors (think dup) * limits the applicability over poll, so this is not a generic * poll replacement. + * d) epoll doesn't work the same as select with many file descriptors + * (such as files). while not critical, no other advanced interface + * seems to share this (rather non-unixy) limitation. + * e) epoll claims to be embeddable, but in practise you never get + * a ready event for the epoll fd. * * lots of "weird code" and complication handling in this file is due * to these design problems with epoll, as we try very hard to avoid |