Re: Event::io watcher w/ poll='w' on Solaris

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:06:53PM -0400, Allen Smith wrote:
> > Since the Event::io module is very flexible in regards to what events can
> > be "waited" for: Why not introduce another set of conditions, like
> > "urgent" ('u') or "out-of-band" ('o') to still provide the functionality
> > for those few, who really use urgent/oob data together with Event::io
> > triggers on the writing end of a socket/pipe/whatever.
> 
> Hmm... I am wondering whether a flag for "include out-of-band" is a more
> correct way to do this - in other words, should not only "w" include
> "out-of-band" availability, but should "r" include "out-of-band"
> availability. How independent these two desires for checking are - and can
> be on various OSes - is a good question.

i'm inclined to wait until someone actually requests that Event support
out-of-band data before making further changes.

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