[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

Sat May 27 03:27:20 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>>>roughly speaking, epoll is kqueue for linux.
>>> There are many different select-like things around now
> (select, poll, epoll, kqueue -- are there others?) and
> random combinations of them seem to be available on any
> given platform. This makes writing platform-independent
> code that needs select-like functionality very awkward.
>> Rather than adding yet another platform-dependent module,
> I'd like to see a unified Python interface in the stdlib
> that uses whichever is the best one available.
>Of course that would mean establishing which *was* the best available 
which, as we've seen this week, may not be easy.
regards
 Steve
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