On 6/30/10 10:28 AM, "Adam Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For servers, they are still pretty useful. You can use the select() > call on unix to wait for any one of a set of connections to be ready > for you, and when it is, you then call the same blocking read/write > functions. Since you know ahead of time that they are ready, it > doesn't actually wait. Select has been out of favor for quite a while in favor of poll, epoll, kqueues, IO Completion ports, and the like. I'd recommend starting with libevent2 (http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/) if the license fits, and fire events through the D concurrency mechanisms. Layering blocking APIs on top of this should be pretty easy. -- Joe Hildebrand
