Hi, Nala Ginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> 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’.
