On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 15:18 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Why? I don't believe the current abstractions to be useful. > Noone has really made any real push to use alternative network/ > communication layers which don't provide Berkeley sockets and > file descriptors. The real way to do this is to properly abstract > out everything beginning at the filedescriptor layer and allow > people to drop in replacement "fd", IPC, comm and disk implementations > of a fixed API. This would be nice to have in the future. > The C API, with perhaps enough fruit to support stuff like the > Callback type, should do us fine for now.
One important thing to consider is windows NT, for which fd's are a burden - it has sockets, but the handle is opaque and not contiguous ints. Other than that, if it gets us a release - sure. +1. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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