Could you recommend some guides about Epoll on Linux

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Simon Kim picture Simon Kim · Aug 26, 2008 · Viewed 31.6k times · Source

I need to know about Epoll On linux System.

Could you recommend manual or guides about epoll library?

need more detailed guides. it's better to have some examples.

help me. and Thank you for reading.

Answer

Ryan Guest picture Ryan Guest · Aug 26, 2008

Here's an introduction to Epoll, a pretty basic tutorial: http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/04/13/epoll-asynchronous-network-programming/

A more complete example can be found here: https://banu.com/blog/2/how-to-use-epoll-a-complete-example-in-c/

Also, the man pages

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