Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
> |This is why I propose that POSIX goes into another direction: standardise
> |an event loop. By doing this, we're not only avoiding the entire discussion
>
> What a terrible idea! You even want to take away the possibility
> to implement the event loop that i need, if any!
>
> |about polling frameworks, we're also creating an ecosystem where people can
> |write portable libraries that can easily be scheduled within the same event
> |loop, which is awesome. It also gives operating systems the ability to
>
> No it is not. How long does it take to write a shallow layer that
> works on epoll(2) or kevent(2) the way you need it. But
> standardizing a fixed event requires myriads of possibilities for
> configuration possibilities of this intransparent black box of
> a thing. Just look how many people actually use the terrible
> black box posix_spawn(): how many, i am asking you?
Given that there is no standard for a VFS interface and the fact that the Linux
VFS implementation is more than sub-optimal (see the discussions about reiserfs
and Linux) it would be a bad idea to standardize something that is based on a
Linux kernel implementation detail.
Jörg
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