commit 95b7dbcc187e5e16477b64215af947b5b53cbdec from: Alexander Barton date: Thu Dec 28 13:53:19 2006 UTC Updated documentation, refer to all the supported IO APIs. commit - 43f8d149bbb0958f96257a46fb26a1e2d1d7a630 commit + 95b7dbcc187e5e16477b64215af947b5b53cbdec blob - f4a6ae4d74e66bd7435342c1b8c65a849c3763be blob + 6c62a031aae96f79e10e27c5c8b858a283d35596 --- INSTALL +++ INSTALL @@ -149,14 +149,20 @@ standard locations. The Z compression library ("libz") is required for this option. * IO Backend (autodetected by default): + --with-select[=] / --without-select + --with-poll[=] / --without-poll + --with-devpoll[=] / --without-devpoll --with-epoll[=] / --without-epoll --with-kqueue[=] / --without-kqueue - ngIRCd can use three different IO "backends": the "old school" select() + ngIRCd can use different IO "backends": the "old school" select() and poll() API which should be supported by most UNIX-like operating systems, or the - more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux 2.6) or kqueue() (BSD) APIs. + more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux >=2.6), kqueue() (BSD) and + /dev/poll APIs. By default the IO backend is autodetected, but you can use "--without-xxx" - to disable a more enhanced API and force the daemon to use select(). + to disable a more enhanced API. + When using the epoll() API, support for select() is compiled in as well by + default to enable the binary to run on older Linux kernels (<2.6), too. * IDENT-Support: --with-ident[=] @@ -241,4 +247,4 @@ number. In both cases the server exits after the outpu -- -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.24 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.25 2006/12/28 13:53:19 alex Exp $