Re: Comments on ‘wip-nio’

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had a quick look at ‘wip-nio’, and here are initial comments.
>>
>>  • 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?
>>
>>
> Maybe add a module named "(ice-9 linux)"? And we may add more
> Linux-specific things.

I’d rather have (ice-9 event) or such, and do our best to provide a
portable implementation of the feature.

[...]

>  • ‘nio’ doesn’t seem very descriptive to me; ‘nbio’ maybe?
>>
>
> In my server project, I named it "aio" since it's asynchronous.

Right, that’s also the name of the POSIX API for that, so it’s probably
a good choice.

Thanks,
Ludo’.