Re: The Proposed Linux kevent API (was: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.)

2006-08-23 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 10:22 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:36:07PM -0700, Nicholas Miell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > int kevent_get_events(int ctl_fd, unsigned int min_nr, > > unsigned int max_nr, unsigned int timeout, > > void *buf, unsign

Re: The Proposed Linux kevent API (was: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.)

2006-08-22 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:36:07PM -0700, Nicholas Miell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > == The Proposed Linux kevent API == > > The proposed Linux kevent API is a new unified event handling > interface, similar in spirit to Windows completion ports and Solaris > completion ports and similar in fac

Re: The Proposed Linux kevent API

2006-08-22 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 20:47 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 20:31 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Nicholas Miell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:36:07 -0700 > > > > > Dear DaveM, > > > > > > Go fuck yourself. > > > > I guess this is the bit that's su

Re: The Proposed Linux kevent API

2006-08-22 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 20:31 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Nicholas Miell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:36:07 -0700 > > > Dear DaveM, > > > > Go fuck yourself. > > I guess this is the bit that's supposed to make me take you seriously > :-) Of course. ^_^ -- Nicholas

Re: The Proposed Linux kevent API

2006-08-22 Thread David Miller
From: Nicholas Miell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:36:07 -0700 > Dear DaveM, > > Go fuck yourself. I guess this is the bit that's supposed to make me take you seriously :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: The Proposed Linux kevent API

2006-08-22 Thread Howard Chu
Nicholas Miell wrote: Having looked all this over to figure out what it actually does, I can make the following comments: - there's a distinct lack of any sort of commenting beyond brief descriptions of what the occasional function is supposed to do - the kevent interface is all the horror of t