Re: select() efficiency / epoll

Davy Durham
2005-08-24T01:06:36Z

Davide Libenzi wrote:

>
> I should mention that the 2.4 patch is old WRT mainline epoll in 2.6
> (I stopped maintaining it when 2.6 went "stable"). I'd definitely
> suggest to use 2.6 if you are looking at epoll.
>
I am using linux-2.6.11 and glibc-2.3.4 .. and using select() in it's
place seems to work fine. Are there any known issues with say, one
thread does epoll_wait()s while other threads may be doing epoll_ctl()s?

Is there someone else I should be asking this question?

Thanks,
Davy