Use poll() instead of select()

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 31 January 2003 00:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> So it would be sensible to start abstracting the core fd
> polling function out into some switchable layer for when
> this stuff comes along.

I really doubt that abstracting the poll()/select() with yet another layer 
would improve anything.

I even doubt that replacing select() with poll() would improve anything 
noticable even on older machines (e.g. you know.... my K6/200)

I think this makes only sense when the app has a lot of fd's and a lot of 
traffic (e.g. web server, streaming media servers and other things like 
this). This is not the case for the average desktop app.
select() really ain't the bottleneck, I think.

Bye
Alex