[reSIProcate] epoll prototype patch

[Kennard White]

Hi Phillip,

libevent is a great library. Unfortunately, to use it with resip would
require even more radical surgery than I've already done. Since my goal is
to converge with mainline sooner rather than later (to avoid risk of an
internal company fork) I didn't want to go this route, at least right now.
To be clear, it isn't the effort involved in using libevent, but rather the
behavior changes.

In terms of configuration, I think for now I'm just going to put in the
#ifdefs in the code and probably patch up ./configure for linux users. More
elaborate solutions (autoconf,CMake) would be up to someone else to convert
the whole project.

Thanks,
Kennard

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Philip Kizer <pckizer at nostrum.com> wrote:

> On 2010/11/16, at 17:50, Kennard White wrote:
> > I would appreciate thoughts on the best way to determine if a given
> platform
> > supports epoll(). Should I add this as an option to the configure script?
> Is
> > there any more automatic approach?
>
> I'm not sure off-hand, but I'd look to other projects that make use of
> OS-offered event functions like libevent.
>
> Since I do not know if you can use libevent (<
> http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/<http://monkey.org/%7Eprovos/libevent/>>)
> directly, perhaps you can at least see how that project does it and use
> similar mechanisms.
>
> If you could use libevent (or its mechanisms), you might even get support
> for kevents and other more efficient implementations along with it.
>
>
> -p
>
>
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