linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: Epoll frequently fails to notify connects at connect bursts

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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:26:43 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Will Brown <dr.hfuhruhurr@...il.com>
Cc:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Epoll frequently fails to notify connects at connect
	bursts

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:15:10AM +0200, Will Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Davide Libenzi<davidel@...ilserver.org> wrote:

> >> Multiple quasi-simultaneous events for the same fd are merged. This is why
> >> on POLLIN on accepting sockets you want to do something like:

> Aha! Thank you immensely Davide. It cost me one week of frustration already.

> 1. Where should I have picked up this gem of essential information? I
> haven't seen it in the man-pages for either 'epoll' or 'accept'.

It should be covered in the "Level-Triggered and Edge-Triggered" section
of the epoll() manual page - the particular case of accept() isn't
covered but the general idea is the same.
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