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A scalable and explicit event delivery mechanism for UNIX

Gaurav Banga
Network Appliance Inc., 2770 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Jeffrey C. Mogul
Compaq Computer Corp. Western Research Lab., 250 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301
Peter Druschel
Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005

• Abstract
• Introduction
• The problem with select()
  • The poll() system call
• Event-based vs. state-based notification mechanisms
• Details of the programming interface
• Use of the programming interface
• Implementation
• Performance
  • Experimental environment
  • API function costs
  • Proxy server performance
• Related work
  • Event support in NetBIOS and Win32
  • Queued I/O completion signals in POSIX
  • Port sets in Mach
• Future work
• Summary
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• About this document ...