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List:       linux-man
Subject:    Re: Small typo in man page "epoll"
From:       "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-01-21 19:21:05
Message-ID: f1e60fff-3854-bb50-895a-972ab9c92759 () gmail ! com
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On 1/20/20 12:10 PM, John Jones wrote:
> Thank you for your efforts.
> 
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/epoll.7.html
> 
> In the section "Level-triggered and edge-triggered note that it says 
> "waiting on the same the same..."

Thanks, John. Fixed.

Cheers,

Michael

> If multiple threads (or processes, if child processes have inherited
> the*epoll *file descriptor acrossfork(2)  \
> <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html>) are blocked in epoll_wait(2)  \
> <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/epoll_wait.2.html>  waiting on the same the \
> same epoll file descriptor and a file descriptor in the interest list that is \
> marked for edge- triggered (*EPOLLET*) notification becomes ready, just one of the
> threads (or processes) is awoken fromepoll_wait(2)  \
> <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/epoll_wait.2.html>.  This provides a useful \
> optimization for avoiding "thundering herd" wake-ups in some scenarios.
> 
> 


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