On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:59 -0600, William Henry wrote: >> Hi Martin, >> >> Thanks for the response. Yes I meant the C++ side. >> >> I'll try the Java side in the meantime. >> >> Looking through the INSTALL for C++ the instructions are very linux >> focused - which is too be expected. If I get time I'll see about >> downloading the appropriate prerequisite packages and trying to get C++ >> to work on OS X but I have too much going on right now. > > The biggest issue will be epoll - I think it's a Linux thing. There's > already Solaris & Windows impls out there so it can be ported. A generic > posix poll() impl would probably work and be portable to most unixen but > probably not as fast as epoll or the solaris event framework stuff. > >
This is the osx/bsd version of epoll: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/kqueue.2.html -- Regards, Hiram Blog: http://hiramchirino.com Open Source SOA http://open.iona.com
