Re: [naviserver-devel] task backport?

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On 1/4/06, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> wrote:
> Interesting...
> What is a "task" (in a nutshell)?
>

It's an API for async network IO.  You create a queue which is managed
by a single thread.  You add tasks to the queue.  A task is a callback
and a socket event.  The queue thread monitors all sockets for events
(readable/writeable) and then runs the callbacks.