/dev/poll is simple and provides a decent degree of scalability. It's also portable to platforms like HP-UX and IRIX.<br><br>The event completion ports interface is excellent and scales much better.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Francis Cianfrocca</b> <<a href="mailto:garbagecat10@gmail.com">garbagecat10@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael S. Fischer</b> <<a href="mailto:michael@dynamine.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">michael@dynamine.net</a>> wrote:
</span><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>No. On Solaris 7+, select() wraps /dev/poll, which is pretty fast,<br>though not quite as fast as kqueue. Solaris 10 introduces a new event<br>completion framework, which many are calling IOCP (not to be confused
<br>
with IOCP in Windows). See<br><a href="http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/event_completion.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/event_completion.html
</a><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>--Michael<br>_ </blockquote>
</span><div><br><br>Have you used it? Any good? <br></div><br></div>
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