Re: POE::XS::Loop::Poll (again)

Look at $poe_kernel->poe_kernel_loop();

David Davis
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 08:24, hideo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tony Cook (Mon 08/04/08 22:39):
> > In the spirit of POE::XS::Queue::Array, I've released
> > POE::XS::Loop::Poll, an implementation of POE's event loop written in
> > C.
> >
> > I haven't done any speed benchmarks (or found any), but I expect it to
> > be slightly lower overhead than the built-in POE::Loop::Select.
> >
> > Of course, without a benchmark it can only be a guess.
> >
> > Unfortunately, due to an apparent limitation with Darwin's poll(2)
> > implementation you can't use this loop with ttys under Darwin.[1]
> >
> > The nopaste bot on irc.perl.org has been using POE::XS::Loop::Poll
> > since the 0.005 release.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > [1] From poll(2):
> >   BUGS
> >      The poll() system call currently does not support devices.
> > which is kind of vague, but calls result in POLLNVAL set for the tty fds.
>
> Does API::Peek report this loop properly?  I can't seem to verify that
> POE is using XS::Loop::Poll or not.
>
> Zach
>