Re: [Bug-wget] GSoC2012 - parallel downloading

[Ángel González]

On 18/03/12 18:36, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> You wrote about select(). Where it comes from?
> manpages says 4.2BSD, the +1 thing let me feel it is correct.
>
> Giuseppe

See man 2 select, Adam.
I think it was indeed added with BSD socket API. It's an ubiquous
one, but usually the less efficient. In Linux you would get best results
with epoll(2). Another alternative is poll(3p), BSD KQueue...
There are libraries like libevent[1] which abstract the underlying socket
multiplexing syscall. But it means adding a dependency to the package.
gnulib seems to provide wrappers for select and poll.

Take a look at the different options.
Best regards

1- http://libevent.org/