On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mitch \(WebCob\) wrote: > Bill, I'm a staunch FreeBSD supporter (*BSD in general as my second choice) > BUT, I see some things in Linux that although they aren't mature enough for > my taste, I'd welcome similar initiatives in FreeBSD - one however is a bit > of a sticking point for Courier, and that is FAM's kernel support. > > Implementing this in FreeBSD would require a modification to FAM (better as > FreeBSD's kqueue events are more robust than Linux's inode monitoring) but > this is not the route the FAM guys are trying to push things - they want > everyone to emulate the Linux event scheme.
Honestly, I don't know why they don't use something like glib's (not glibc, g-lib) event looping. It's portable, it's reasonably clean. There are others, too! -- Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have a sheep for dinner and finding a well-informed, well-armed sheep. Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C and Python Code Gardener ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
