Re: [Libevent-users] When to use libevent?

[Stef Bon <stefbon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot you both.

I appreciate example code and guides very much!! I will look into them.

Stef Bon

2010/7/5 Tero Marttila <terom@xxxxxxxx>:
> On 07/05/2010 08:45 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Stef Bon<stefbon@xxxxxxxxx> Âwrote:
>>>
>>> I'm wondering, when writing a fuse module to get access to an Internet
>>> service like Flickr or a webservice
>>> like a cloud, is libevent required??
>>
>> As for the question of whether you *should* or *could* use Libevent in
>> implementing a user-space filesystem... I don't know why you couldn't.
>> ÂYou can get an intro to what libevent can do for you at
>> http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ Â. ÂOnly you can decide
>> whether that functionality is a good fit for your program, though.
>>
>
> Certainly, it can be done;
>
> Â Â Â Âhttp://hg.qmsk.net/evfuse.hg/file/0b92d553400a/src/evfuse.h
> Â Â Â Âhttp://hg.qmsk.net/evfuse.hg/file/0b92d553400a/src/evfuse.c
>
> Â Â Â Â(fix the code to use your own error handling)
>
> But this requires that you use libfuse's low-level API, since the normal
> high-level/path-based API is completely synchronous. But if you're willing
> to work with the asynchronous low-level/inode-based API, it's works very
> well.
>
> Â-- Tero Marttila
>
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