Re: fam vs libevent?

[Michael Raymond <mraymond@xxxxxxx>]

    Different OS's support different versions of /dev/poll, kqueue,
/dev/epoll, etc.  libevent exists to allow an application program to a
single interface and let the library worry about working with what the OS
supports.  FAM isn't so much interested in socket events for network servers
as it is targeted at events in normal files in the filesytem.  That's my
experience at least.
                                                        Michael

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:08:18AM -0700, Viner, David wrote:
> can someone with more knowledge than i explain the differentiating features
> of FAM and libevent?  both seem to address the same problem area.  libevent
> information can be found at http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
> 
> thanks
> dave
> 
> 

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Michael A. Raymond
Core OS Scheduling Group        Real-Time Lead