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| author | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2013-05-02 23:00:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2013-05-03 01:19:36 +0000 |
| commit | a64016a9c6e80302da46b46b96fa2f3765ea5591 (patch) | |
| tree | 1341ec55bc0c5bf7cbba5324bd13adaf615c50cf | |
| parent | 565b92da156ddf268634c3e1076d51d811ff0dc6 (diff) | |
| download | sleepy_penguin-a64016a9c6e80302da46b46b96fa2f3765ea5591.tar.gz | |
We support kqueue and Rubinius. Nowadays, we also export the potentially dangerous low-level APIs for epoll and kqueue.
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@@ -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 |