[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri May 26 19:28:47 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I don't know what epoll is.
> 
> On a related note, perhaps the needforspeed folks should look into
> supporting kqueue on systems where it's available? That's a really
> fast BSD-originated API to replace select/poll. (It's fast due to the
> way the API is designed.)

roughly speaking, epoll is kqueue for linux.

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