[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] initial commit of log watcher (lwatch)

[John Dennis]

On 07/23/2009 09:01 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> We are considering combining the log monitor with audit collection.
> These are two separate functions it would be logical
> to have them in separate threads.

The architecture is and will be event driven with a main event loop. In 
most cases event loops are superior to threads, both from a performance 
and complexity perspective. The only reason I could envision needing to 
use threads is if some operation was subject to blocking. But then again 
event loops are particularly adept at handling non-blocking IO so the 
only reason I could see a need for threads is if there were some reason 
we couldn't use asynchronous non-blocking methods.

Asynchronous non-blocking methods are to the best of my knowledge the 
preferred approach in the project.

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>

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