How do web-servers "listen" to IP addresses, interrupt or polling?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/837933/h...

Answer 1 links:
[HLT]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT
[system call]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_call
[accept]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/accept
[TCP SYN]: http://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/inte...
[fork]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/fork
[asynchronous IO]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronou...
[select]: http://linux.die.net/man/2/select
[epoll]: http://linux.die.net/man/4/epoll
[EWOULDBLOCK]: http://linux.die.net/man/3/errno
[Nginx]: http://nginx.org/
[HAProxy]: http://www.haproxy.org/

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