What is "urgent data"?

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Published on 2010-03-31T17:18:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 17:23 UTC
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The man page of epoll_ctl() says about EPOLLPRI:

There is urgent data available for read(2) operations.

How exactly is "urgent data" defined and who decides which data has priority?

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