On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:59:45AM -0700, Teunis Peters wrote: > I've not found any code to work with - but is there any reason that > libevent would not work with standard files? > > I keep getting permission denied > > more or less: > > fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY) > event_set(&ev, EV_READ | EV_PERSIST, rd_callback, rd_data); > event_add(&ev, NULL) > -> EPERM > > Or does libevent only work with network connections?
Libevent uses underlying nonblocking IO mechanisms the platform gives it. Some of these work well with non-socket file descriptors; some don't. By default, libevent uses the fastest (best-scaling) backend that it knows about for your platform, even if that backend doesn't support all fds. In the current svn trunk (which will eventually become libevent 2.0), there's a feature to let you specify that you want a backend that works with file descriptors, even if it doesn't scale well. yrs, -- Nick _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
