Re: [naviserver-devel] brave new world

[Zoran V. <zv...@ar...>]

On 06.10.2006, at 23:41, Stephen Deasey wrote:

>
> What's the goal?  We can certainly abstract socket event IO, with
> poll() as a fallback. But some of the interfaces you mentioned here
> can handle waiting on other things, e.g. signals.  Is this what you
> want?

At the moment only as replacement for poll as kqueue or solaris
port_* are way more scalable.

>
> There's a start at socket event IO in nsd/event.c.  I didn't try
> wrapping anything other than poll(). My main motivation was to create
> a nice interface to clean up the main driver loop in nsd/driver.c, and
> also to make something capable of handling the reader/writer stuff
> that's in there, which is a little trickier due to the IO being spread
> among more than one thread.
>
> I have some patches for it somewhere. IIRC, the locking isn't  
> flexible enough...
>
> But it's code that exists so you can hack on it if you think it's  
> suitable.

Basically that is what I thought. To get rid of the old-fashioned
poll as there are much better options today.

>
>
> You'll be using Linux like every one else and it won't matter...  :-)
>

Ah... lets see... In any case, this is interesting development.