Re: kqueue

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:19:38PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> However, my concern was the impression of "there is no portable event
> mechanism we could use" that I got on the mailinglist, which becomes
> increasingly untrue (sigio & friends (like sigtimedwait) are optional
> posix extensions that get really popular), and the more programs are using
> it the more "standard" it will become.

Hey, great!  I'm all for it.  Show me a portable spec and I'll code to
it!

The reason for my (our?) skepticism is that the last time I check
(admittedly a few years ago), there was just a few scraps of
documentation about APIs that didn't work very well.

> It would be hard work to implement this for Event (for the rare cases it
> is really necessary), so I don't say this should have high priority, I
> just wanted to say that it makes more sense in using some *standardized*
> technique than using any os-specific extension.

Sure, but if we decide to do something os-specific then I think Linux is
a good choice.  ;-)

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