linux/net
Davide Libenzi f348d70a32 [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications
Implement the half-closed devices notifiation, by adding a new POLLRDHUP
(and its alias EPOLLRDHUP) bit to the existing poll/select sets.  Since the
existing POLLHUP handling, that does not report correctly half-closed
devices, was feared to be changed, this implementation leaves the current
POLLHUP reporting unchanged and simply add a new bit that is set in the few
places where it makes sense.  The same thing was discussed and conceptually
agreed quite some time ago:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/12/116

Since this new event bit is added to the existing Linux poll infrastruture,
even the existing poll/select system calls will be able to use it.  As far
as the existing POLLHUP handling, the patch leaves it as is.  The
pollrdhup-2.6.16.rc5-0.10.diff defines the POLLRDHUP for all the existing
archs and sets the bit in the six relevant files.  The other attached diff
is the simple change required to sys/epoll.h to add the EPOLLRDHUP
definition.

There is "a stupid program" to test POLLRDHUP delivery here:

 http://www.xmailserver.org/pollrdhup-test.c

It tests poll(2), but since the delivery is same epoll(2) will work equally.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
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802
8021q
appletalk
atm
ax25
bluetooth [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
bridge
core [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
dccp [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
decnet
econet
ethernet
ieee80211 [PATCH] Restore channel setting after scan. 2006-03-23 16:18:47 -05:00
ipv4 [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
ipv6 [IPV6]: ip6_xmit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr check 2006-03-23 01:17:25 -08:00
ipx
irda
key
lapb
llc
netfilter
netlink [NETLINK]: Add netlink_has_listeners for avoiding unneccessary event message generation 2006-03-20 18:52:01 -08:00
netrom
packet
rose
rxrpc [PATCH] fix 'defined but not used' warning in net/rxrpc/main.c::rxrpc_initialise 2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
sched
sctp [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
sunrpc [PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format 2006-03-24 07:33:23 -08:00
tipc [PATCH] s/;;/;/g 2006-03-24 07:33:24 -08:00
unix [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
wanrouter
x25
xfrm
compat.c
Kconfig Merge branch 'master' 2006-02-07 01:47:12 -05:00
Makefile
nonet.c
socket.c [PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format 2006-03-24 07:33:23 -08:00
sysctl_net.c
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