Re: >256 fd patch...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:07:00 +0000 (GMT)


> When you guys say "poll for data" are you implying that a timeout of 0 is
> passed to select? I don't see how that is useful, isn't that the equivalent
> of having the descriptors set non-blocking and just going in a loop trying
> to read single characters from them?

Count the number of system calls in both schemes multiply by 2uS and come
back when you have figured it out