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| -rw-r--r-- | man/man7/epoll.7 | 3 |
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diff --git a/man/man7/epoll.7 b/man/man7/epoll.7 index 9515001312..86e5f83631 100644 --- a/man/man7/epoll.7 +++ b/man/man7/epoll.7 @@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ input buffer; meanwhile the remote peer might be expecting a response based on the data it already sent. The reason for this is that edge-triggered mode -delivers events only when changes occur on the monitored file descriptor. +delivers events only when changes occur on the monitored file descriptor, +that is, an event will be generated upon each receipt of a chunk of data. So, in step .B 5 the caller might end up waiting for some data that is already present inside |