On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:43:11 +0100 (GMT/BST), Mike Jagdis
<mike@roan.co.uk> said:
> Personally I dislike that failure mode. The recovery method (using
> select or poll) involves allocating fairly significant chunks of
> kernel memory and spending significant time looping in kernel mode.
The cost per fd is miniscule.
--Stephen
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