[Python-Dev] epoll implementation (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 26 23:41:04 CEST 2006

Ross Cohen wrote:

1) Provide an epoll implementation which is used "silently" when the call is available.

2) Expose both poll(2) and epoll(4) in python and build select.poll on top of whatever is available. Ok, so 2 is only different in that it exposes the lower level APIs. I'd like to know if that's what people want.

Supporting EPOLLET reliably looks like a valid use case, so there must be some way to specify "I really want epoll". Whether this is through a second entry point, or through an optional flag to poll, I don't care (providing the flag might be actually more expressive, since it would also allow to specify "I want poll", although I can't see a use case for that).

Regards, Martin

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