Re: RFC: Native epoll syscalls

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes:

>> It is definitely a real problem that people write linuxy code that
>> seems unaware of POSIX and portability.
>
> While I feel a bit uncomfortable appearing to defend the practice (and,
> to be sure, it definitely can be a problem) - but, it's also one of the
> ways advancements happen: add an extension, use it, it turns out to be
> useful, it gets popular....
>
> I've done it myself (well, except for the "gets popular" part, which no
> one person can do alone): labeled control structure, AF_TIMER sockets,
> pidconn, validusershell, the list goes on.

Sure, but this is "there are several extensions, and write code that
only uses the local one, even though it could have been written to use
any".  And perhaps "there are mechanisms which could have been adopted,
but instead make up a third".

And I really meant "seems unaware", not "made a deliberate decision,
evidenced by written design" :-)