On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Aaron Boxer <boxe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > Is it possible to use libev to have non-blocking access > to a blocking system call? In my server, I want to call posix_fadvise() > on a file, and want to receive a callback when the call returns.
You need to run your system call in a thread, then have the thread notify the thread running libev through ev_async. This is the approach that libeio uses. -- Phusion | Ruby & Rails deployment, scaling and tuning solutions Web: http://www.phusion.nl/ E-mail: i...@phusion.nl Chamber of commerce no: 08173483 (The Netherlands) _______________________________________________ libev mailing list libev@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libev
