[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 27 09:53:56 CEST 2006


Alex Martelli wrote:
> On May 26, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Steve Holden wrote:

>>Of course that would mean establishing which *was* the best available
>>which, as we've seen this week, may not be easy.
> 
> I believe it's: kqueue on FreeBSD (for recent-enough versions  
> thereof), otherwise epoll where available and nonbuggy, otherwise  
> poll ditto, otherwise select

It would be an improvement if it would just pick *some*
implementation that worked, even if it weren't strictly
the best.

--
Greg


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