That's very cool. If you call poll with a timeout of zero, is it smart
enough not to put you on any wait queues? That would be the best of all
worlds.
> The signal model gives you the best of both worlds: low overhead
> when only a few fd's at a time need attention (no linear scan),
> and low overhead when they all do (same as old poll() method,
> but with the extra overhead of a single SIGIO).
>
> sct must be sleeping, or he would have answered like this, I think :-)
That's pretty cool, actually.
DS
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