Re: [naviserver-devel] brave new world

[Vlad S. <vl...@cr...>]

We use  Linux only, so it will not affect us but if using new API will 
change the way the program works, how it will be possible to support 
Solaris, Linux, Windows and MaxOSX at the same time?

Zoran Vasiljevic wrote:
> Unix is not Unix as I see...
> 
> Please note this (interesting) document:
> 
>    http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/event_completion.html
> 
> Mostly interesting, as there is now a very powerful and scalable
> notification interface on both Solaris and Mac OSX (aka BSD)
> Unixes. Windows has it as well, with Linux hanging pretty much
> behind (unfortunately).
> 
> I wonder if we should start making ifdefs or wrappers to be able
> to benefit from the corresponding event notification interface
> available on the current platform.
> 
> Mainly this would affect poll() usage in the driver thread
> but can also be used all arround the code where we have to
> wait for multiple "things" to happen.
> 
> Does anybody have something to comment about that?
> 
> Ah yes.., why "brawe new world"? Because Unix OS is diverging
> and OS vendors are adding new (incompatible) functionality
> on a monthly basis. I wonder how this will all look in 10
> years in future...
> 
> Cheers
> Zoran 
> 
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