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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:28:29 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>, wayne@crb-web.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: poll() vs select()
Message-ID:  <19990704152829.W709@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990703233119.17254@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 11:31:20PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907030058240.22384-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <19990704040435.35CD464@overcee.netplex.com.au> <19990703231029.08379@right.PCS> <19990704135128.U709@freebie.lemis.com> <19990703233119.17254@right.PCS>

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On Saturday,  3 July 1999 at 23:31:20 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:51:28PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Saturday,  3 July 1999 at 23:10:29 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
>>> On Jul 07, 1999 at 12:04:35PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>>> Is there interest in doing something like this in general?
>>>
>>> YES!  As a matter of fact, I've done something similar to this already,
>>> but instead of a queue, it's a variant of poll which passes in and out
>>> "change lists"; a list of fd's which have had status changes since the
>>> last call.  I've been trying to bring it up for discussion on the -arch
>>> list, but it's been dead.  (I think it was just fixed recently).
>>
>> Did you see the presentation "A scalable and explicit event delivery
>> mechanism for UNIX" at USENIX?  It sounded quite interesting.  Page
>> 253 of the proceedings.
>
> Is this the paper by Mogul, et al?

Yes, this is the one.

> I didn't make it to USENIX, and don't have the proceedings at hand,
> but my implementation is fairly similar to a series of papers that
> Jeff Mogul has produced regarding web scalability.

Good.  I thought the paper (presented by Gaurav Banga) was quite
interesting, but I wasn't convinced it was the only way to do it.
Unfortunately, I haven't found time to look at it in more detail.

Greg
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