| 50 | | into user programs. The current implementation uses the <tt>select(2)</tt> system call |
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| 51 | | and may be used on a range of Unix-like systems. A future version of EventMachine |
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| 52 | | for Linux will use <tt>epoll(4)</tt> and will thus require a Linux 2.6 kernel. |
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| | 50 | into user programs. On most platforms, EventMachine uses the |
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| | 51 | <tt>select(2)</tt> system call, |
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| | 52 | so it will run on a large range of Unix-like systems and on Microsoft |
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| | 53 | Windows with good performance and scalability. On Linux 2.6 kernels, EventMachine |
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| | 54 | automatically configures itself to use <tt>epoll(4)</tt> instead of |
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| | 55 | <tt>select(2),</tt> so scalability on that platform can be significantly |
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| | 56 | improved. |
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