Non-blocking sockets

[thready]

Hi Poco experts,

If I set a socket to non-blocking, what does that mean exactly? If I do a read, it will immediately return? Is there some callback function that will get called if I do that? (I'd love it if it worked like that)...

Thanks,
Mike

[guenter]

It basically means that a call to receiveBytes() may return a negative return value, denoting that no data is available. You'll usually use select() or poll() get wait until data becomes available. The details are a bit more complicated; refer to Stevens or the Socket FAQ.

[aderouineau]

When will POCO support kqueue/epoll for linux ? Even for level-triggered they work better.

Of course it would be unbelievably great to have a proactor implementation ^^

[guenter]

We'll have Linux epoll support in 1.3.7.

[mongmong]

We'll have Linux epoll support in 1.3.7.

That will be great!

Are you going to implement the epoll support from scratch or by using some existed mature wrapper, like libevent?