Re: select() efficiency / epoll

[Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com>]

That's probably a good idea.  Where would I find out what other projects 
use it?

Willy Tarreau wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:01:15AM -0500, Davy Durham wrote:
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>>I just mean that when  I debug and catch the segv, it's dies because 
>>some pointers now have corrupted values.  (usually because something is 
>>overwriting some memory some where)
>>
>>I'm currently re-writing some code to make it use select() instead of 
>>epoll_wait() and see if everything is suddently fixed.  If so, then I 
>>will suspect that epoll has a problem.  But it's still not ruled out 
>>being my fault since it could be a timing issue that makes the crash 
>>show up.
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>>
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>Just out of curiosity, have you had the opportunity to read some other
>code which uses epoll ? Maybe reading others code could enlighten you
>on potential bugs in your code, potential races, etc...
>
>Regards,
>Willy
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