On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:12:53AM +0200, Michel Oosterhof wrote:
> I've got one more question, actually a fact that surprises me, it
> seems that tail(1) is the only place in the base system that actually
> uses kqueue.
It is also used in libc for the DNS resolver.
> Is there a reason for this? I read in most places
> kqueue() is more efficient, scalable, etc.
Probably lack of time to convert more programs. I suspect that inetd
or syslogd might benefit from kqueueing, but I guess the real gains
would be in applications like apache.
David.
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