Hi All: During the TSM on 17th March, we had very interesting discussion on poll() vs select() system call.
To better understand event dispatch mechanism in Linux kernel take a look at this paper. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2000/HPL-2000-174.pdf While this discussion is applicable to Linux kernel env, the FreeBSD had another implementation, called 'kqueue' ! Hope this helps. thanks Saifi.
