Top "Epoll" questions

epoll is a Linux 2.6 readiness notification API for sockets, pipes, and special event-, signal-, and timer descriptors which can operate both in level- and edge-triggered mode, although presently only level-triggered behaviour is in accordance with the documentation.

Is there epoll equivalent in Java?

Is there an equivalent of Linux epoll in Java? epoll allows a thread to react to a number of heterogenous …

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What is an anonymous inode in Linux?

I made a google search about "anonymous inode" and it seems it's related to epoll ... but what actually is it?

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What's the difference between event-driven and asynchronous? Between epoll and AIO?

Event-driven and asynchronous are often used as synonyms. Are there any differences between the two? Also, what is the difference …

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UDP Packet drop - INErrors Vs .RcvbufErrors

I wrote a simple UDP Server program to understand more about possible network bottlenecks. UDP Server: Creates a UDP socket, …

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Is it necessary to deregister a socket from epoll before closing it?

Assume the following code where "sock" is a handle to TCP socket that was previously registered with an epoll file …

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What does poll() do with a timeout of 0?

I'm looking at the poll() man page, and it tells me the behavior of poll() when positive and negative values …

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multithreaded epoll

I am creating a multithreaded server using epoll (edge-triggered) and non-blocking sockets. Currently I'm creating an event loop on the …

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C: epoll and multithreading

I need to create specialized HTTP server, for this I plan to use epoll sycall, but I want to utilize …

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Is epoll thread-safe?

There are two functions in epoll: epoll_ctl epoll_wait Are they thread-safe when I use the same epoll_fd? …

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Why do we need to call poll_wait in poll?

In LDD3, i saw such codes static unsigned int scull_p_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait) { struct scull_…

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