what is the difference between poll and epoll ?

Peter Teoh htmldeveloper at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 18:36:04 EST 2013


Read this (classic answer):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4093185/whats-the-difference-between-epoll-poll-threadpool

and from below:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4039832/select-vs-poll-vs-epoll

Which will bring you to:

http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/poll-vs-select.html
and
http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

and the three are explained in depth here:

http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-6-sect-3

The difference are also explained here:

http://www.winddisk.com/2012/03/28/epoll%E4%B8%8Eselectpoll%E7%9A%84%E5%8C%BA%E5%88%AB/

and comes with a pictorial diagram as u have requested.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:35 AM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi:
>
>    I know epoll is event triger model ,but I do not know internel
>
>    surpport for it .
>
>    is there some illustration for  epoll's frame or internel
> implementation?
>
> thanks!
>
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Regards,
Peter Teoh
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