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kunley on May 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why not mmap?

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So when epoll doesn't cope with regular files as author expected, why not use better interface: kqueue?

bnoordhuis on May 19, 2011 [–]

linux doesn't have kqueue. But kqueue is only an API, you could emulate it with io_submit() and io_getevents().

A bigger obstacle is that not all file systems support asynchronous I/O, the io_*() syscalls won't help you there.

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