Re: /dev/poll

See http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html. Looks like quite interesting
reading, and also mentions /dev/poll patches for Linux..

/Henrik

Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> Someone mentioned somewhere that someone hacked up a /dev/poll for Linux.
> /dev/poll was first implemented in Solaris 8 (perhaps solaris 7 too)
> and would be rather suited for the fast network IO code.
>
> Can someone linux-savvy see if they can find some /dev/poll code ? I'm
> going to get a solaris box running the required OS version and write a
> comm_devpoll.c for commloops, so if Linux can have /dev/poll it would make
> things easier. :-)
>
> Also, can people take a look at the latest comm.c in commloops? There is
> a write optimisation with comm_write() I tossed on squid-dev a while back
> and finally implemented, and it seems to work just neat.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Adrian
>
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> Adrian Chadd "If a butterfly flaps its wings in China,
> <adrian@creative.net.au> will a women get naked in Amsterdam?"
> -- Ashley Penney on Chaos Theory
Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 15:15:41 MDT