[patch] libc/resolv: use poll() instead of kqueue()

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 13 20:19:24 UTC 2014


On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 5:59:52 pm Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> The resolver in libc creates a kqueue for watching a single file
> descriptor. This can be done using poll() which should be lighter on the
> kernel and reduce possible problems with rlimits (file descriptors,
> kqueues).

I agree that a kqueue for a single fd is a bit silly in terms of overhead 
compared to just calling poll.

-- 
John Baldwin


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