Re: [MiNT] State of the Union

[Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

Frank Naumann wrote:
> Hello Howard!
>
> Nice to hear from you.

Hello again. Nice to see that new things are still happening in the kernel.
> > > Ah, I see. Personally I wanted to go into the kqueue() direction as 
> > > introduced and used by the BSD systems. This solution looks very easy 
> > > to use and is extremly flexible and extensible. It's basically a 
> > > filedescriptor and you add a list of events (determined by id and a 
> > > filter) you want to wait for.
> >
> >
> > See this message
> > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200411/msg00088.html
> >
> > kqueue has some other performance limitations as well. The scheme I 
> > outline in the above link addresses all of those shortcomings.
>
>
> Yes, very interesting ideas. Ok, we aggree that kqueue() is a good 
> direction :-) But we need also to have in mind that for FreeMiNT we 
> don't need to optimize our interface to handle several thousand open 
> files efficiently. I would rather optimize it for small memory 
> consumption as I don't think we have such heavy server applications in 
> the next time.

I understand. (But I'm still writing a separate reply to Evan's points.)

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