On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > On most OSes, however, checking for "readable" on plain files always > immediately returns/yields a readable event anyway, so it's of no use > (e.g. select/poll on Unix, I guess the same for epoll/kqueue, ok, > kqueue differs from select/poll in that it returns readable if you're > not at EOF, unless you set an additional flag, and then it returns in > all cases). You have to use different mechanisms (like aio) if you want > to hide disk latencies on plain files without using separate threads > for their manipulation. So I think, using libevent events on plain files > usually just doesn't make much sense in my eyes.
For good AIO, I suggest you take a look at: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libeio.html CB _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
