[cozis]

> I used to think (well, I still do) that getting a barebones service up and running using the system APIs at the lowest level like this is so satisfying. It's sort of magical, really

Totally agree. And actually using them is even more satisfying. I'm starting to get curious about email protocols..

> I'm kind of surprised that the vanilla poll() can put up numbers like you were seeing

Me too. I assumed I was going to go with epoll at some point, but poll() is working great.