* Maxime Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001118 06:03] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it was reasonnable to implement the select() and poll()
> system calls as kqueue()/kevent() wrappers. This would make any application
> using these system calls benefit from the performance improvements of the new
> kernel thread.
>
> Do you think it's possible and that it won't cause some portability problems ?
It would just cause more overhead. To implement select()/poll() using
kevent would necessitate building up an eventlist that was comprised of
EVFILT_ONESHOT events, then after return or timeout clearing the
events that hadn't fired.
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