Re: kqueue, poll and file descriptor types
Re: kqueue, poll and file descriptor types
- Subject: Re: kqueue, poll and file descriptor types
- From: Joel Reymont <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:03:49 +0100
On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:01 PM, AM wrote:
>
>> What about the BUGS sections of kqueue:
>>
>> Not all filesystem types support kqueue-style notifications. And even some that do, like some
>> remote filesystems, may only support a subset of the notification semantics described here.
>
> That refers to vnode-watching which select() doesn't support anyway, so that's not it.
Fair.
>>
>> and poll:
>>
>> The poll() system call currently does not support devices.
>
> As far as I am aware, select() and poll() are strict subsets feature-wise of kqueue, so I would be very curious to find a counter example.
So what about devices in BUGS for poll?
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