Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility

Applications running on a UNIX platform need to be no- tified when some activity occurs on a socket or other de- scriptor, and this is traditionally done with the select() or poll() system calls. However, it has been shown that the performance of these calls does not scale well with an in- creasing number of descriptors. These interfaces are also limited in the respect that they are unable to handle other potentially interesting activities that an application might be interested in, these might include signals, file system changes, and AIO completions. This paper presents a generic event delivery mechanism, which allows an ap- plication to select from a wide range of...
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Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility