Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754625AbXEZMux (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 08:50:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752701AbXEZMur (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 08:50:47 -0400 Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:43250 "EHLO kuber.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752253AbXEZMuq (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 08:50:46 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1399 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 08:50:46 EDT Message-ID: <10815949.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 05:27:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Arunachalam To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: epoll,threading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: arunachalamp@huawei.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 23 Hello all, I want to know in detail about , what the events (epoll or /dev/poll or select ) achieve in contrast to thread per client. i can have a thread per client and use send and recv system call directly right? Why do i go for these event mechanisms? Please help me to understand this. Thanks in advance, Arunachalam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/epoll%2Cthreading-tf3820388.html#a10815949 Sent from the linux-kernel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/