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Diffstat (limited to 'cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | cpp/src/qpid/sys/Poller.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cpp/src/qpid/sys/Poller.h b/cpp/src/qpid/sys/Poller.h index 47b7606a16..ec53b79bad 100644 --- a/cpp/src/qpid/sys/Poller.h +++ b/cpp/src/qpid/sys/Poller.h @@ -31,8 +31,14 @@ namespace qpid { namespace sys { /** - * Poller: abstract class to encapsulate a file descriptor poll to be used - * by a reactor. + * Poller is an abstract base class that registers callbacks to be + * called when there is IO activity. Concrete derived classes + * implement polling APIs such as epoll or equivalents on other + * operating systems. + * + * On the broker, Connection::received() is called with incoming + * frames from clients, and Connection::doOutput() is called when a + * connection is writeable. * * @see DispatchHandler for more details of normal use. */ |