On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:46:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I did remember to check though before I left the company. The
> "__sgi" did *not* work. Rather, "sgi" did:
>
> #ifdef sgi
> ..
> ..
Oh good. I'll put in the check.
> I was very glad to find Event. We already had a communications
> API written in perl which talked talked to an initialization
> and control daemon. I needed to write a simple network connectivity
> tester which informed the control daemon in the event of a network problem.
> Event allowed me to watch a few sockets, have a timer go off every 10 seconds to
> check the network, etc.,
> and I was able to do the whole thing in perl and still talk to the
> control daemon. I could have done it in C, but the
> development time would have been considerably longer. The excellent
> documentation helped a lot as well.
At your service! :-)
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