Epoll and Kqueue: How Operating Systems Learned to Wait Efficiently

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Modern systems do not—largely because of mechanisms like epoll on Linux and kqueue on BSD-based systems. This is the interest list or the epoll set of that particular epoll instance. Like epoll, this registration persists until you remove it. But kqueue goes further.

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