Re: [Libevent-users] Question about internal event mechanism

2011-09-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Ellzey wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:22:15PM +1000, Jim Tink wrote: >> Could someone provide a small overview on how libevent supports these? IE Is >> it based on the operating system or context of when an event is created or >> something like that? Is i

Re: [Libevent-users] Question about internal event mechanism

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Ellzey
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:22:15PM +1000, Jim Tink wrote: > Could someone provide a small overview on how libevent supports these? IE Is > it based on the operating system or context of when an event is created or > something like that? Is it something that I would control as a developer > etc? Th

[Libevent-users] Question about internal event mechanism

2011-09-07 Thread Jim Tink
Hello all, For the description of libevent: Currently, libevent supports /dev/poll, kqueue(2), event ports, select(2), poll(2) and epoll(4). Could someone provide a small overview on how libevent supports these? IE Is it based on the operating system or context of when an event is created or some