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Re: [Help-bash] What does kqueue means?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] What does kqueue means?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:29:13 -0500
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On 1/25/18 5:42 PM, Jorge wrote:
> I'm trying to understand what the word kqueue means to understand the
> option -k from ulimit, which says:
> 
>> The maximum number of kqueues that may be allocate

`kqueue' is a BSD kernel event notification mechanism. You allocate a
kqueue with the kqueue(2) system call, it returns a file descriptor,
and you receive notifications of events in which you indicate interest
via that descriptor. The events are placed on a queue associated with the
descriptor and you can retrieve them one at a time, hence the `kqueue'
name.

The resource limit controls the number of queues you can create.

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