I/O event notification mechanism - select() or epoll() ?

[Rahul Bedarkar]

Thanks Michi and Peter !

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:53 AM,
<michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 17:19 Wed 26 Sep     , Rahul Bedarkar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to capture kernel udev events through libudev. One of API
>> provides asynchronous events by reading on file descriptor. I found
>> that there two ways to do that.
>>
>> 1) select call
>> 2) epoll
>>
>> I also found that epoll is smarter and meant to replace old select call.
>>
>> What are your thoughts on these ? Which one is better ?
>
> If you are ok to be limited to linux, I would highly recommend using epoll
> because of scaleability. Using select is almost like creating a new epoll
> descriptor for every call instead of reusing it.
>
>         -Michi
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