On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
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> We don't need POLL_RELEASE

What happens on timeout?  Do we just let userspace continue polling
the file descriptor, and then ignore the notification?

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>  but we still need POLL-reply (to request) to
> send revents.  We can put that into notification too.  Hmmm... Yeah,
> that could be simpler for FUSE servers.  I'll venture that way.

Then in fact the notification could just become the reply:

<- POLL-request (sent with request_send_nowait())
...
-> POLL-reply  (calls req->end())

So there won't even be a need to implement notification (we'll need
that for other things in the future) simplifying things even further.
Even if we want to cancel the request because of a timeout, that could
be done with the existing INTERRUPT request.

Miklos
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