[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

[Steve Holden]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> 
>>roughly speaking, epoll is kqueue for linux.
> 
> 
> There are many different select-like things around now
> (select, poll, epoll, kqueue -- are there others?) and
> random combinations of them seem to be available on any
> given platform. This makes writing platform-independent
> code that needs select-like functionality very awkward.
> 
> Rather than adding yet another platform-dependent module,
> I'd like to see a unified Python interface in the stdlib
> that uses whichever is the best one available.
> 
Of course that would mean establishing which *was* the best available 
which, as we've seen this week, may not be easy.

regards
  Steve
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