From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS47066 71.19.144.0/20 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 X-Original-To: normalperson@yhbt.net Received: from zedshaw2.xen.prgmr.com (zedshaw2.xen.prgmr.com [71.19.156.177]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451701F42E for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 23:00:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zedshaw2.xen.prgmr.com (unknown [IPv6:::1]) by zedshaw2.xen.prgmr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD4873D9C for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 23:02:16 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 23:00:03 +0000 From: Eric Wong In-Reply-To: <1367535603-10259-1-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net> List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Message-Id: <1367535603-10259-1-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net> Precedence: list References: <1367535603-10259-1-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net> Sender: sleepy.penguin@librelist.org Subject: [sleepy.penguin] [PATCH] README: update with latest features To: sleepy.penguin@librelist.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We support kqueue and Rubinius. Nowadays, we also export the potentially dangerous low-level APIs for epoll and kqueue. --- README | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 551ce8e..9574dce 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,19 +2,21 @@ sleepy_penguin provides access to newer, Linux-only system calls to wait on events from traditionally non-I/O sources. Bindings to the eventfd, -timerfd, inotify, and epoll interfaces are provided. +timerfd, inotify, and epoll interfaces are provided. Experimental support +for kqueue on FreeBSD (and likely OpenBSD/NetBSD) are also provided. == Features -* Thread-safe blocking operations for all versions of Ruby +* Thread-safe blocking operations for all versions of Matz Ruby and Rubinius * IO-like objects are backwards-compatible with IO.select. -* Epoll interface is fork-safe and GC-safe +* High-level Epoll interface is fork-safe and GC-safe * Unlike portable event frameworks, the Linux-only epoll interfaces allow using edge-triggered or one-shot notifications for possibly - improved performance + improved performance. Likewise, the kqueue interface supports + one-shot notifiactions, too. * Fully-documented and user-friendly API -- 1.8.2.rc3.2.geae6cf5