Re: [naviserver-devel] brave new world

[Mike <nee...@gm...>]

On 9/25/06, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> 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...

I highly recommend a download and read-through of lighttpd sources.
They have a very simple abstraction that handles the available
interfaces (kqueue, poll, and friends).  Since it's also a web server,
I imagine the API can be adopted (that, and the fact that the code is
very well written and clean make it an ideal candidate to examine, in
my opinion).