On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Mikhail T. <mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com>wrote:
> Thrown off by Tony's inflammatory remark, I was not careful with my own > choice of words. I was referring to my test-program, which was able to > discern directory-changes on BSD, when using libevent, but not when using > libev. > > The same libevent-using method was not working on Linux, which made it > "worthless" in Tony's educated opinion, and I pointed out, libev can not be > used for the purpose even on BSD (can it?) -- which would make the method > even more "worthless" in the same opinion... > Look, libev is a library that, in my opinion, is known for one thing in particular: excellent cross-platform abstractions that provide the same semantics across multiple operating systems. I don't think it makes sense to include a feature that only works on FreeBSD in libev. -- Tony Arcieri
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