On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Q2 > > Can two epoll sets wait for the same file descriptor? If so, are events > reported to both epoll file descriptors? > > A2 > > Yes, and events would be reported to both. However, it is not recommended. > > ========= > > It's not clear what "not recommended" means. Furthermore, I don't think > there's anything wrong with two epoll file descriptors waiting for different > events on the same file descriptor. One's waiting for POLLIN, the other for > POLLOUT. What's wrong with that? Perhaps Davide has some thought to offer here? -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
