Subject: Re: Importing kqueue's from FreeBSD...
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/15/2001 15:57:32
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:02:12PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> What's the userlevel api? Can it easily support explicit
> event-notification mechanism like the one (iirc) Gaurav Banga and Jeff
> Mogul proposed as a replacement for poll()/select(), for
> single-threaded apps with thousands of "interesting" objects?
Uh, read jlemon's paper -- he wrote it after reading Mogul's paper,
and it does indeed perform that function (with a much nicer interface
than Mogul's, I might add...)
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>