From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: sleepy.penguin@librelist.org
Subject: [sleepy.penguin] [PATCH 4/4] README: update with latest features
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 01:20:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367544006-11148-4-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1367544006-11148-1-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net
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
--
1.8.2.1.367.gc875ca7
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-03 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-03 1:20 [sleepy.penguin] [PATCH 1/4] doc: flesh out kqueue-related documentation Eric Wong
2013-05-03 1:20 ` [sleepy.penguin] [PATCH 2/4] kqueue: remove timeout handling for nevents==0 Eric Wong
2013-05-03 1:20 ` [sleepy.penguin] [PATCH 3/4] test_kqueue_io: additional test for IO-likeness Eric Wong
2013-05-03 1:20 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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