Sorry for the late reply, just read through the archives ;)
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:45:17PM -0400, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JNP> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT
>
> and whether this propogates to other unixes is a big issue. i don't
Well, most unices support asynchroneous I/O, which gives most of the same
and scales very well.
> better than poll/select (and that shouldn't be hard) then linux,
> solaris, etc. should pick it up with at least an emulation library and
> then in the kernel.
Apart from changes in files, linux, solaris (and most probably also
freebsd) etc... all support asynchroneous I/O which can completely replace
select/poll (but not more), so this would be a viable target.
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