Re: [Valgrind-users] 2.6 kernel support

[Tom H. <th...@cy...>]

In message <Pin...@ye...>
          Nicholas Nethercote <nj...@ca...> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> > It should be pretty easy to do in the 2.1 tree - you just need to add
> > PRE and POST functions to deal with the args and return vals, work out
> > which syscalls can block, and put the entries into the table.  The 2.0
> > patch won't be much help though, because I presume most of it is to do
> > with making epoll_* non-blocking, which isn't an issue any more.
> 
> Are epoll_{create,ctl,wait} blocking or non-blocking?

Judging from the documentation I would think just epoll_wait is a
blocking call. I can't see any reason why either of the others should
ever block.

Tom

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