On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 January 2013 08:15, Richard Sharpe <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 07:36 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> .. or you could abstract it out a bit and use freebsd's >>> aio_waitcomplete() or kqueue aio notification. >>> >>> It'll then behave much saner. >> >> Yes, going forward that is what I want to do ... this would work nicely >> with a kqueue back-end for Samba's tevent subsystem, and if someone has >> not already written such a back end, I will have to do so, I guess. > > Embrace FreeBSD's nice asynchronous APIs for doing things! You know you want > to! > > (Then, convert parts of samba over to use grand central dispatch... :-) > > Seriously though - I was doing network/disk IO using real time signals > what, 10 + years ago on Linux and it plain sucked. AIO + kqueue + > waitcomplete is just brilliant. kqueue for signal delivery is also > just brilliant. Just saying.
Or just use libevent to abstract away kqueues/inotify/etc? Samba isn't just for freebsd... Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
