[OpenAFS-devel] Rx over TCP to solve some NAT & Firewall issues?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:21:21 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> >> Solaris has /dev/poll, the BSD's have kqueue, and Linux has something
> >> else which I'm sure someone will remind me of.  The interfaces for
> >> handling lots and lots of fd's seem to be there.
> >
> >So instead of a nice generic userland fileserver we have to write stuff
> >again for every platform? That would be sort of annoying.
>
> Remind me again how many damn #ifdefs are in process.s? :-)

Maintaining something which is already split implementations per platform
is different than willingly adding more of the same.