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libevent Integration Into NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the what's-happening-and-how-often dept.

Dan writes "Niels Provos says this is a heads up for the upcoming integration of libevent into the NetBSD source tree. Libevent provides a simple API to abstract event notification and handling. Applications are notified via callbacks on IO events, timers and signals. Libevent is meant to replace the event loop found in event driven software."

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  1. Looks good but by ObviousGuy · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenBSD needs to catch up a bit. This is release 0.7 but OpenBSD is still using 0.5.

    Hopefully the new version will be approved and performance gains realized.

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    1. Re:Looks good but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Niels Provos no longer has CVS commit privileges for OpenBSD, so that may be the reason why libevent is out of date in that tree. I don't know why he no longer has commit privileges, but he is doing increasing amounts of work on NetBSD these days.

  2. Why? by ivoras · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is probably just a provision for Linux compatibility. All 'BSDs have kqueue/kevent mechanisms.

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