Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 06 Sep 1999 14:47:21 +0200 |
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Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> writes:
|> The main cost of select and poll, on the kernel side, is scanning |> the fds to see what is ready. The way select and poll are usually |> used we want a means to express an interest in an fd and then |> receive a stream of "events" as fds change state.
That's what SIGIO is for.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@suse.de completely different." SuSE GmbH, Schanzäckerstr. 10, D-90443 Nürnberg
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