On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:20:35AM -0800, Eric Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I read a number of concerns about libev & kqueue.
What concerns? libev supports kqueue just fine... It is kqueue that is making problems on most BSDs, though. > Since all I care about are sockets, can I get libev to use kqueue in an > efficient non-polling mode? Or am I better off looking at libevent or > using kqueue directly? What do you mean with "kqueue in non-polling mode"? afaik, kqueue only supports a polling mode, and this is what both libevent and libev use. > Sorry, I'm new to libev and kqueue - more used to using select() > directly or other higher level APIs. But libev looks really great. Thanks. While, of course, I think that libev has a lot of advantages over libevent (such as a more rational API (espeically when multithreading) and higher performance), libevent is certainly adequate to the job as well. You should probably look at the libevent example program, and the libev documentation (which also has examples) and choose the one that appeals most to you. If you are only interested in sockets and simple timeouts, then both libraries have the same feature set (although understanding how timeouts work in libevent can be difficult, it certainly was for me). libevent example: http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/event-test.c libevent docs: http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/doxygen/ libev docs: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod If you insist on using kqueue everywhere (watch out, its buggy on most os x releases even for sockets), then this will give you an event loop using kqueue in libev, whenever kqueue is available: #include <ev.h> struct ev_loop *loop = ev_loop_new ( ev_recommended_backends () | EVBACKEND_KQUEUE ); assert ((loop, "libev initialisation failed")); -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ libev mailing list libev@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libev
