On Monday 14 May 2007 05:11:33 pm Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baldwin writes: > >On Monday 14 May 2007 10:18:41 am Alexander Motin wrote: > > >> Log: > >> Replace select() by poll() to avoid problems with big > >> descriptor number. > > > >Why not kevent(2)? > > kevent(2) is most useful if you have many descriptors open > (ie: apache).
Hmm, some other things use it too even with few fd's such as the name resolver in libc. > poll(2) works quite well for a low number of descriptors, > and doesn't care what their numeric numbers are. > > select(2) is terrible unless you have a limited number of descriptors > and they are all low numbered. This is because of the array > representation. > > > Given that poll(2) is a much simpler API than kqueue(2), I'd > say it was the right choice here. That's fine, was just asking. :) -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
