select()

Toby Douglass toby.douglass at 45mercystreet.com
Mon Mar 17 13:45:32 UTC 2008


Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Hi there:
>
> I am by no means an expert, but I don't think that this is the case.
> Tor uses libevent, which will automatically select the best I/O
> multiplexing system; this is probably anything but select() on your
> system. Hopefully it's an event-based system like kqueue (BSD) or
> realtime signals (Linux).

I omitted specifing that I am in fact running on Windows 2000.  Libevent
uses select() *only* under Windows.

BTW, I note this reply was to "or-dev at freehaven.net" and cc:'d
"or-dev at seul.org".  Why the two addresses?  I've left freehaven as a cc:
just in case.




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