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System specific implementation for Ping event sources

Open elinorbgr opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Currently Ping is implemented using a pipe, which is a generic unix way of implementing it.

However some platforms provide other primitives that could be used more efficiently for this, such as eventfd on Linux.

elinorbgr avatar Apr 20 '20 18:04 elinorbgr

Some BSDs have EVFILT_USER, which can be used to wake up a kqueue without using a pipe. Similarly port_send can be used on Solaris. However I'm not sure how this would be exposed in polling.

notgull avatar Jan 15 '24 17:01 notgull