select doesn't scale particularly well, though. (And I'm not wild about its interface either; poll conceptually similar but much nicer to program to.) http://

select doesn't scale particularly well, though. (And I'm not wild about its interface either; poll conceptually similar but much nicer to program to.) http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html (a now fairly old document, by internet standards) discusses a number of other options.