On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:19:50PM +0530, Rahul Bedarkar wrote: > Hi, > > I have to capture kernel udev events through libudev. One of API > provides asynchronous events by reading on file descriptor. I found > that there two ways to do that. > > 1) select call > 2) epoll > > I also found that epoll is smarter and meant to replace old select call. > > What are your thoughts on these ? Which one is better ? I personally prefer event loop libraries such as libev[1]. They handle all the interfacing with the event mechanism the OS provides, so you only need to register a callback function. HTH, Jonathan Neuschäfer [1] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
