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| author | Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de> | 2006-12-28 13:53:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de> | 2006-12-28 13:53:19 +0000 |
| commit | 95b7dbcc187e5e16477b64215af947b5b53cbdec (patch) | |
| tree | 0f9af219ad248b213c899ed9277755ea7ed18272 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 43f8d149bbb0958f96257a46fb26a1e2d1d7a630 (diff) | |
| download | ngircd-95b7dbcc187e5e16477b64215af947b5b53cbdec.tar.gz ngircd-95b7dbcc187e5e16477b64215af947b5b53cbdec.zip | |
Updated documentation, refer to all the supported IO APIs.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f4a6ae4d..6c62a031 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -149,14 +149,20 @@ standard locations. The Z compression library ("libz") is required for this option. * IO Backend (autodetected by default): + --with-select[=<path>] / --without-select + --with-poll[=<path>] / --without-poll + --with-devpoll[=<path>] / --without-devpoll --with-epoll[=<path>] / --without-epoll --with-kqueue[=<path>] / --without-kqueue - ngIRCd can use three different IO "backends": the "old school" select() + ngIRCd can use different IO "backends": the "old school" select() and poll() API which should be supported by most UNIX-like operating systems, or the - more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux 2.6) or kqueue() (BSD) APIs. + more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux >=2.6), kqueue() (BSD) and + /dev/poll APIs. By default the IO backend is autodetected, but you can use "--without-xxx" - to disable a more enhanced API and force the daemon to use select(). + to disable a more enhanced API. + When using the epoll() API, support for select() is compiled in as well by + default to enable the binary to run on older Linux kernels (<2.6), too. * IDENT-Support: --with-ident[=<path>] @@ -241,4 +247,4 @@ number. In both cases the server exits after the output. -- -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.24 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.25 2006/12/28 13:53:19 alex Exp $ |