Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:45:43 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jay Nordwick" <nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: select/poll implementation Message-ID: <199908222245.QAA25737@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19990822094307.99527.qmail@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> References: <19990822094307.99527.qmail@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>
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> I had always wondered how select/poll worked (actually see the end of the > mail to see the broader question), so I pulled up select() and family > and started reading and chasing stuff around. I think that I fully > understand (much praise to whoever wrote most of that, it was incredibly > easy to read) everything from sys_generic.c. Sean Fagan walked me through the code a couple of years ago, and after our discussion he decided to submit this to Dr. Dobbs. The article should be available in their archives somewhere to explain these things in some detail, and should answer the questions you have. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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