Re: [MiNT] State of the Union

[Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Frank Naumann wrote:

> Requiring use of Fnctl() or any other system call to alter the set of 
> events imposes too much overhead. On servers where the set of 
> descriptors of interest changes frequently, this kind of approach is a 
> serious loser.
>
> > Ah, I see. Personally I wanted to go into the kqueue() direction as 
> > introduced and used by the BSD systems. This solution looks very easy 
> > to use and is extremly flexible and extensible. It's basically a 
> > filedescriptor and you add a list of events (determined by id and a 
> > filter) you want to wait for.
>
>
> See this message
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200411/msg00088.html
>
> kqueue has some other performance limitations as well. The scheme I 
> outline in the above link addresses all of those shortcomings.
More here
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2004-Week-47/1814.html

Unfortunately I was in Europe on business so I never got the time I 
thought I would have to finish the Linux implementation.

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