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It's not an event system in the sense that it's not just a way to get notified when a file descriptor is ready for reading or writing. Like the OP says, it is a
by ciconia 1y ago
It's not an event system in the sense that it's not just a way to get notified when a file descriptor is ready for reading or writing. Like the OP says, it is a way to run syscalls asynchronously.
- jcelerier 1y ago> It's not an event system in the sense that it's not just a way to get notified when a file descriptor is ready for reading or writing. first time in my life I hear people calling this an event system. For me it's always been any architecture centered around asynchronous message queues.
- hxtk 1y agoEvent-Driven Architecture refers to a different thing, but people used to refer to async code as event-based back before async/await existed, when doing async meant writing the Event Loop yourself.
- Sharlin 1y agoYes, but "fd readiness checker" is a super narrow nonstandard definition of "event system". Though I get what the author tries to say.