A brief history of select(2) — Idea of the dayRecently I've been thinking about the multiplexing in Linux, namely the epoll(7) syscall. I was curious if epoll is better or worse than the iocp or kqueue. I was wondering if there was a benefit in batching epoll_ctl calls. But let's step back for a while, before we start a serious discussion we need to get some context. Most importantly - is file descriptor multiplexing an aberration or a gentle
