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Still not updated to mention anything more than select() as far as non-blocking IO is concerned, like poll, epoll, or, god no, using an abstract event loop. Nob

by ambrop7 14y ago

Still not updated to mention anything more than select() as far as non-blocking IO is concerned, like poll, epoll, or, god no, using an abstract event loop. Nobody who cares about their code and sanity does blocking I/O with sockets. But then, I must confess I too started network programming with this guide :) It presents the basics nicely, but there's a lot more you should learn about network programming.

jcheng 14y ago
Are you saying "god no" to using an abstract event loop? If so, why? (I've been using libuv for a project, so far so good.)
- ambrop7 14y ago
  No, of course not, I was just referring the the reluctance of the book to get modernized. I can't possibly imagine not using an abstract event loop.
  - jcheng 14y ago
    Ah, "God forbid"--gotcha.
asveikau 14y ago
It looks like he did put in a blurb about using libevent in order to use a more modern syscall under the hood - it's disappointing though that he didn't explain why epoll and kqueue are better though, people who are new to this would be much better served by that than by any code samples involving select().