Socket - handling large numbers of incoming connections

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:29:14 +0000
schrieb Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com>:

> On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 23:17:45 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
> > If you want to reinvent the wheel you can use  
> 
> [...] it isn't like the bundled functions with the OS are 
> hard to use [...]
> 

epoll and similar interfaces are not difficult to use. But you
need to be careful to handle all error conditions caused by low level
posix io calls (read/write) correctly. (Partial reads/writes, How
do you handle EINTR? How do you handle error codes returned by the close
function*? ...)

* http://lwn.net/Articles/576478/