From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-ASN: AS14383 205.234.109.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,HK_RANDOM_FROM, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER shortcircuit=no autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Wong Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rainbows.general Subject: [PATCH (socket_dontwait)] README: update with support status Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:23:01 -0700 Message-ID: <20100927212301.GA3531@dcvr.yhbt.net> References: <20100803091847.GC3255@dcvr.yhbt.net> <20100809224401.GA12996@dcvr.yhbt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285622883 8799 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2010 21:28:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:28:03 +0000 (UTC) To: rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: rainbows-talk-bounces-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org Mon Sep 27 23:28:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclrrg-rainbows-talk@m.gmane.org X-Original-To: rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org Delivered-To: rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100809224401.GA12996-yBiyF41qdooeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: rainbows-talk-bounces-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org Errors-To: rainbows-talk-bounces-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rainbows.general:136 Archived-At: Received: from rubyforge.org ([205.234.109.19]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0LEq-0006Xp-Bd for gclrrg-rainbows-talk@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:27:56 +0200 Received: from rubyforge.org (rubyforge.org [127.0.0.1]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8274F197833E; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:27:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dcvr.yhbt.net (dcvr.yhbt.net [64.71.152.64]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CCC19783B9 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:23:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.2.5]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4061F74A; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:23:01 +0000 (UTC) Eric Wong wrote: > Eric Wong wrote: > > This library is considered EXPERIMENTAL. If successful, we'll see about > > getting them integrated into the standard Ruby socket library. > > I've been running socket_dontwait for a few days now with real traffic > (and thus unreliable and slow clients) and haven't noticed anything > wrong. No crashes, corrupted data, nor fires :) Everything is still good as long with this as long as penguins are powering your apps :) Maybe there are other OSes with complete MSG_DONTWAIT support (and works with Ruby). Let us know if there are. >>From 53f39821dfc86c4ed4c1953249a142ae4d8ff65e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:16:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README: update with support status Well, the penguin rocks! --- README | 13 ++++++++----- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 4dc2be9..5ba5739 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,11 +10,14 @@ from the IO class directly into BasicSocket with socket-specific system calls and flags. This library is only intended for Ruby 1.9 and will not build with other -versions of Ruby. This only supports operating systems with the -non-POSIX MSG_DONTWAIT flag for send(2) and recv(2) syscalls. - -This library is considered EXPERIMENTAL. If successful, we'll see about -getting them integrated into the standard Ruby socket library. +versions of Ruby. This only supports operating systems with complete +support of the non-POSIX MSG_DONTWAIT flag for send(2) and recv(2) +syscalls on stream sockets. + +This library is fully-supported and stable on GNU/Linux 2.6+. It is +experimental and unsupported on other systems unless someone steps +forward to support them. Some operating systems have incomplete/broken +support for the MSG_DONTWAIT flag on various types of stream sockets. == Features -- Eric Wong _______________________________________________ Rainbows! mailing list - rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rainbows-talk Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying