Re: File-descriptors - large quantities

Tom Vier (nester@sekurity.org)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 01:11:00 -0400 (EDT)

> poll(2) will work with old kernel, because libc will emulate it, but if its
> not supported by the kernel, performance will suffer badly.

> All this assume, select(2) will suck for 12k FDs, which I've not tested.

sorry if this off topic, but generally, which is better to use, select
or poll?

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