Re: Clumsy interface of epoll

On May 29, 2:15 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Had I designed this interface, I would certainly have provided one or
both, because just because *I* *cannot* *presently* *imagine* *why*
*I* *would* *want* *to* *use* *this*, the possibility that someone
else could, and possibly even in a really intelligent way I am
presently too dense to think of myself, is certainly greater than
zero.

That's a justification for adding every imaginable feature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_featurism

DS
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