>> By the way, in the code you have >> >> case EPOLL_CTL_MOD: >> if (epi) { >> if (!(epi->event.events & EPOLLEXCLUSIVE)) { >> epds.events |= POLLERR | POLLHUP; >> error = ep_modify(ep, epi, &epds); >> } >> >> I think the "if" here is redundant. IIUC, earlier in the code you >> disallow EPOLL_CTL_MOD with EPOLLEXCLUSIVE. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >> > > Hi Michael, > > So the previous check ensures that you can not add the EPOLLEXCLUSIVE > flag to the events via an EPOLL_CTL_MOD operation, where EPOLLEXCLUSIVE > may not be the existing events set. While this check here ensure you > can't modify an existing set that already has the EPOLLEXCLUSIVE flag. Hmmm - I misread the code, itr seems :-/. Could you please carefully check the man page text I sent earlier in this thread. Maybe I injected some errors into the text. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html