OLS: A proposal for a new networking API

Posted Jul 23, 2006 19:10 UTC (Sun) by busterb (subscriber, #560)
In reply to: OLS: A proposal for a new networking API by dps
Parent article: OLS: A proposal for a new networking API

There are a number of poll/select alternatives in various operating systems that work around this limitation by returning a list of pointers to only the descriptors that have received an event. On Linux, see epoll(4). libevent is a nice library that abstracts away OS-specific mechanisms such as these.