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On 5/16/05, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> wrote:
> Hi Sebastien,
>=20
> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:17:05PM +0200, Sebastien Petit wrote:
> > [...]
>=20
> as a side note, you may wish to use the kqueue(2) framework to watch
> at link stat changes.  The main advantage is that it will change the
> way it works from a polling model to a notification model.  One major
> drawback in your situation (portable software) is that kqueue(2) only
> exists in BSD world, not in Linux.
>=20

   Or better, use libevent, which wraps all of the above I/O
multiplexing mechanisms.

P.S. kqueue also follows a polling model. You have to issue a kqueue()
syscall in order to get pending events.

> Best regards,
> --
> Jeremie Le Hen
> < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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>=20


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