> From: John Polstra <j...@polstra.com> > Date: 1999-07-06 09:36:51 -0700 > To: arc...@whistle.com > Subject: Re: poll() vs select() > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org > In-reply-to: <199907050103.saa51...@bubba.whistle.com> > Delivered-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA > > In article <199907050103.saa51...@bubba.whistle.com>, > Archie Cobbs <arc...@whistle.com> wrote: > > > > A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget > > to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability. > > Yes! Yes! Yes! (I agree.)
To add to the confusion, we've implemented something very similar for Mac OS X Server, designed to be a replacement for select(), and for use in a similar way to select's use in existing code. You can see it in the Darwin code. Check out "sys/ev.h" for a typically terse description of the API. In the released Darwin source, the code deals only with sockets. The Darwin release that deals with Mac OS X (possibly by fall) should have a more involved design that deals with a number of different kinds of events, including Mach messages (not a big deal for this group, of course). See www.publicsource.apple.com and follow the links to Darwin OS. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | Men are from Earth. Apple Computer, Inc. | Women are from Earth. 2 Infinite Loop | Deal with it. Cupertino, CA 95014 | *-------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
