Thanks Michi and Peter ! On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:53 AM, <michi1@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 -- programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com