This blog describes background and implementation of a poll
set to monitor many sockets in one or several receive
threads. The blog is intended as a description but also to
enable some feedback on the design.
I've been spending some time working out all the gory
details
of starting and stopping lots of send threads, connection
threads and receive threads over the last few months.
The receive threads will be monitoring a number of socket
connections and as soon as data is available ensure that
the data is received and forwarded to the proper user
thread for execution.
However listening on many sockets is a problem which needs
a scalable solution. Almost every operating system on the
planet has some solution to this problem. The problem is
that they all have different solutions. So I decided to
make a simple interface to those socket …
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Nov
24
2008
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