Re: Functions for embedders to override

[email protected] (Arthur Bergman) Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:32:09 +0100
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals,perl.ponie.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11 Aug 2004, at 06:10, Dan Sugalski wrote:

>
>>   * Networking: socket, accept, connect, listen, etc. (see "Files")
>
> Yeah, and this'll be ever so much fun too. We need to add in select 
> and poll to that list.
>

Modern operating systems all have a way to get around the suckiness of 
poll/select when you have large number of fds  
(epoll/aio/kqueue/whatever), there should be away to override those 
interfaces as well :-) (maniac laugh)

Arthur

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