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Well, that's outlawing blocking I/O. Replacing every blocking I/O call with a poll() loop creates significantly more boilerplate than EINTR does…



> Well, that's outlawing blocking I/O

Not really. A blocking poll() call on a single socket (+ eventfd) is still blocking I/O.




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