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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Cc: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>,
	Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:28:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141031172852.6e308217@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24394175.Yx8cizKBtK@descartes>

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:32:30 +0100 Rüdiger Sonderfeld
<ruediger@c-plusplus.de> wrote:
> Glib already seems to use several hacks to work around the
> limitations of kqueue

As a aside: people keep mentioning that they believe kqueue has some
sort of fundamental limitations. I'm curious what those are perceived
to be. So far as I can tell, the interface is fine -- it is a rough
equivalent to what you can do in Linux with epoll (which is currently
preferred over select and its successors).

Perry
-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-31 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-25 20:17 gfile-based file notifications are not immediate Dima Kogan
2014-10-26  7:55 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-26 13:12   ` Ken Brown
2014-10-28 21:33   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-10-29  1:06     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29  2:23       ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-29  3:54         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 12:03           ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-29 13:56             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:11               ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-29 15:29                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 16:28               ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-29 20:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 15:16               ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 16:51                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 17:10                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 17:40                     ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-30 18:04                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 18:06                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 18:11                         ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-30 19:21                           ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 19:39                             ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-30 19:27                           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:00             ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-10-30 19:12               ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-10-30 20:32               ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-10-31 21:28                 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2014-11-02 14:15                   ` Noam Postavsky
2014-11-02 15:50                     ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-26 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-26 17:07   ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-26 17:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-26 16:41 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-28  0:32   ` Dima Kogan

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