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0 pointsmort962y ago0 comments

I like using poll(). I don't generally write software which waits for tens of thousands of FDs, I wait for a couple. Sacrificing platform support for more or less nothing in return doesn't make a lot of sense.

Kqueue/kevent/epoll are good options if you have very particular needs, such as a huge number of file descriptors, but I'd argue poll() should be the go-to.

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arghwhat2y ago· 1 in thread

You get kqueue and epoll for free with most small event loop libraries. But yes, where you only need to poll a few things, poll(3) is fine.

mort96OP2y ago

I guess if you're using an event loop library you don't have to think about it. For people who make event loop libraries, I agree that they should probably support kqueue/kevent+epoll. I was talking about normal application code that's not using such an event loop library.

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