[ntp:hackers] ntp and signalled IO

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4447B3AD.6030602 at ntp.isc.org>, Danny Mayer writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> I'm simply talking about something as trivial as which file descriptor
>> has the lower integer numer so it gets taken first by select()
>> 
>
>This one confused me. Why is any one file descriptor more important than
>any other? Shouldn't they be dealt with equally?

Because we want to do the timestamp in userland as fast as possible
after packet capture, it's more important than say a refclocks
serial data stream.

But then again: lets not waste time on this, until we see if it is
a problem.


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