Re: kqueue
[email protected] (Marc Lehmann)
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Sorry for the late reply, just read through the archives ;) On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:45:17PM -0400, Uri Guttman <[email protected]> wrote: > JNP> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT > > and whether this propogates to other unixes is a big issue. i don't Well, most unices support asynchroneous I/O, which gives most of the same and scales very well. > better than poll/select (and that shouldn't be hard) then linux, > solaris, etc. should pick it up with at least an emulation library and > then in the kernel. Apart from changes in files, linux, solaris (and most probably also freebsd) etc... all support asynchroneous I/O which can completely replace select/poll (but not more), so this would be a viable target. -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |