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- Subject: Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders)
- From: Jolan Luff <jolan@...>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:18:32 -0600
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:34:57AM +0100, Mike Pall wrote:
> John Skaller wrote:
> > Event based notification is O(1). I saw some talk
> > of a signal based system for Linux to allow proper
> > asychronous I/O.
>
> A Talk? I guess you missed a few years of OS development. You don't read
> kernel diffs regularly by any chance? Hint: Linux has epoll() and *BSD
> has kqueue().
>
> > OSX looks interesting -- nice desktop for the
> > illiterate, unix underneath for us nerds .. :)
>
> OSX has only select() and is limited to 1024 descriptors. So much for
> Apple's plans to sell their overpriced boxes in the server market.
> But companies buying these are probably going to use Java and will have
> other things to worry about first. :-)
OSX has kqueue as well...
- References:
- package system modification (module loaders), Tiago Dionizio
- RES: package system modification (module loaders), André de Leiradella
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), duck
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), Tomas
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), duck
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), skaller
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), skaller
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), Diego Nehab
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), skaller
- Re: RES: package system modification (module loaders), Mike Pall