On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:50:46PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
But the 2.0 architecture is entirely different. We need a poll but it's not entirely obvious where to put one...
One suggestion raised in a poll bucket: when a connection level filter cannot read anything more, it passed back a bucket containing a poll descriptor as metadata. Each filter passes this metadata bucket back up. Some filters like mod_ssl would move it from the connection brigade to the data brigade.
At one level we'll have to fit whatever I/O multiplexer we come up with in the filters. I'm going to stay out of that discussion.
At a lower level, ignoring filters for a moment, we still need a way for applications to be able to multiplex I/O between different I/O types: pipes, files, sockets, IPC, etc... I think this is the root of the problem (and something we should probably move over to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, and also something we might want to take up after APR 1.0 is released).
This was exactly the conversation we were having at the hackathon. As always, Windows was the problem, but I thought Bill had it licked?
Cheers,
Ben.
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