From: Andreas Voellmy
A better approach would be to try to register with kqueue and then if it doesn't work, register it with an IO manager thread that is using select for the backend. We can probably reuse the IO manager thread that is watching timers for this purpose. With the parallel IO manager, we no longer use it to wait on files, but we certainly could do that. That would save us from adding more threads. By only failing over to the manager-thread-using-select-backend if kqueue fails, we don't need to maintain a list of files types that kqueue works for, which might be a pain to maintain reliably.
Yeah, I think that is the best approach. _______________________________________________________ - PHO - http://cielonegro.org/ OpenPGP public key: 1024D/1A86EF72 Fpr: 5F3E 5B5F 535C CE27 8254 4D1A 14E7 9CA7 1A86 EF72