Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> writes: >> epoll is as I understand it linux only so that's not a reasonable >> dependency. fibers now works with libevent which wraps multiple >> faclilities and is thus pretty portable. > > Guile-Fibers still uses epoll on Linux, on other systems it uses libevent.
Understood - I just meant that fibers is now (at least 99% of the way) to "broadly portable". I don't know the details of Olivier's question and libevent, but would suggest that libevent does the sort of things that are needed and is the standard portable approach and is thus worth a hard look as the presumptive right answer, absent something better that only relies on what POSIX requires (and what's on Hurd :-).
