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macOS C equivalent to Boost Asio?

Cromulent

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Does anyone know if there is a C equivalent to Boost Asio at all? By that I mean a cross platform library that allows async network IO using the best method for each platform (kqueue on Mac and FreeBSD and epoll on Linux etc).

I haven't been able to find anything from Googling, does anyone have any suggestions at all?
 
Cromulent said:
Alas I have already looked at that but the real time extensions to the POSIX standard are for files only. At least that is what the man page for aio_write() says.
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Wouldn't any type of file descriptor work, such as sockets and so on?
 
subsonix said:
Wouldn't any type of file descriptor work, such as sockets and so on?
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Oops sorry for the late reply. I completely missed your response.

I took the man page at face value to be honest. Anyway I spent a little more time investigating this issue and basically decided that it came down to writing the entire server process in C (which is not a task I particularly relish) or using a language like Erlang which seems to be much better at handling such systems.

Another plus side to using Erlang is that it seems to be the first functional language I have really 'got'. I'm really enjoying the change from C / Java / C++ / Python. It's a bit of an eye opening experience. I might jump into Prolog and (finally, I've been meaning to do it for about 2 years now) sit down and learn Haskell next :).
 
Cromulent said:
Does anyone know if there is a C equivalent to Boost Asio at all? By that I mean a cross platform library that allows async network IO using the best method for each platform (kqueue on Mac and FreeBSD and epoll on Linux etc).

I haven't been able to find anything from Googling, does anyone have any suggestions at all?
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Why would you want to use a "C equivalent" of this library? If it is available on the Mac, then just use it.
 
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