[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 26-mei-2006, at 22:22, Ross Cohen wrote:


>>
>> AIUI, kqueue actually isn't implemented for PTYs on OS X, whereas  
>> poll(2) is.  Given this, I don't think kqueue is actually strictly  
>> better.  Although hopefully Apple will get their act together and  
>> fix this deficiency.
>
> Ok, I'm not familiar with intimate details of kqueue. However, if  
> there
> were a select.poll implementation based on kqueue, it would still  
> be an
> improvement, since there isn't *any* implementation on OS X right now.

Huh? osx support poll just fine, at least in recent versions. 10.3's  
poll is slightly broken, the one on 10.4 works fine (AFAIK).

Ronald