Hi, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> On Wed 21 Mar 2012 23:39, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> I had a quick look at ‘wip-nio’, and here are initial comments. > > Thanks for the feedback! > >> • epoll is Linux-specific. Any idea how a more multi-platform API >> could be provided? I guess libevent could be used, but we don’t >> want to add one more dependency in 2.0. How much is (ice-9 nio) >> dependent on epoll vs. poll, for instance? > > It's possible to write a compatibility wrapper. Note that not all > platforms have poll either; mingw being a notable example. Yes. I mean, it would be best if the API were OS-independent, so that more implementations of it can be added eventually. Thanks for the rest of the explanations, I’ll jump to the new branch now. :-) Ludo’.
