Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

From: Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 16:48:07 EST


Jim Gettys wrote:
> So I want an interface in which I can get as many events as possible
> at once, and one in which the events themselves can have appropriate
> aggregation behavior. It isn't quite clear to me if the proposed interface
> would have this property.

I believe get_event, /dev/poll, and kqueue all share this property.
e.g. none of them will present multiple POLLIN events per fd per call.
Is that what you meant?

- Dan
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