kqueue was if not the, then one of the first attempts to solve the issue of being more performant than select(). So this whole post boils down to "they didn't g

kqueue was if not the, then one of the first attempts to solve the issue of being more performant than select(). So this whole post boils down to "they didn't get it right the first time" to which I say, okay sure, but we only know that now after kqueue proved that event based queues were better than select. This post is ahistorical and anti-social.