A scalable and explicit event delivery mechanism for UNIX

Proceedings of the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Banga, Gaurav ^a   Mogul, Jeffrey C ^b   Druschel, Peter ^c  

^a Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCALABILITY;

DELIVERY MECHANISM; DEQUEUE; DESCRIPTORS; INTERNET SERVERS; MODERN APPLICATIONS; SMALL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM CALLS;

UNIX;

EID: 85084161413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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