Re: Polling large file descriptor sets

From: Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 09:40:39 EST


Florian Weimer wrote:
> It seems that /dev/epoll support will be included in 2.6. Is this the
> official way to solve the problem, or is there another, preferred
> interface I have missed? Is the current /dev/epoll edge-triggered or
> level-triggered?

/dev/epoll is not included, but a similar interface using system
calls, also called epoll, is provided. The new interface does both
edge-triggering and level-triggering, as requested.

-- Jamie
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