[libvirt] [RFC] Events API

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:30:01AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:22:24AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Making a client poll for events is evil because it prevents the CPU
> > going into low power mode when nothing is happening.
> 
> Didn't mean literally poll of course :-)
> 
> > Exposing a FD severely limits your flexibility, because libvirt then
> > has no control over when the FD is being monitored - you may well
> > not want it being select'd on all the time - and/or want to change
> > the events being monitored for at various times.
> 
> Yup, didn't get down to the bottom of your other email.  Exposing an
> FD is also tricky on Windows too (where you have the joys of
> "WSAWaitForMultipleEvents"), so best to avoid it if possible.  If
> someone (dbus? glib?) has solved this in a platform-independent way
> already then so much the better.

The glib event loop implementation on Windows is built using the
WSAWaitForMultipleEvents API, so any libvirt-glib.so impl of the
events.h API would 'just work' in this respect

Daniel
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