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

From: Felix von Leitner (leitner@convergence.de)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 08:10:19 EST

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Thus spake Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com):
> I disagree.

> Let's just face it, poll() is a bad interface scalability-wise.

Is that a reason to implement it badly?

Felix
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