From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 19 18:31:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F98D37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:31:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eAK2VdR93656; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:31:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:31:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Maxime Henrion Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kqueue()/kevent(), select() and poll() In-Reply-To: <20001118150445.A260@nebula.cybercable.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Maxime Henrion 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 ? Also, select() works on more descriptors than kqueue/kevent() does currently (i.e. NFS). Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message