From 0cf0400fe23e39ba4849f62406da29cdb357a1f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:45:12 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- ev_epoll.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ev_epoll.c b/ev_epoll.c index f7e3d60..a324691 100644 --- a/ev_epoll.c +++ b/ev_epoll.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * libev epoll fd activity backend * - * Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009 Marc Alexander Lehmann + * Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009,2010 Marc Alexander Lehmann * 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 -- cgit v1.2.3