[sheepdog] [discuss v2] Design of Libsheepdog

[Liu Yuan]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 04:12:46PM +0900, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> At Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:20:10 +0800,
> Kai Zhang wrote:
> > 
> > On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:13 PM, MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > > We already have a tiny event library (lib/event.c).  Your plan don't
> > > use it at all, or supports it as an option?
> > 
> > We can support it as an option.
> > However, I think user would be more familiar with libev, libevent and libuv.
> 
> The user needs to be aware of the implementation of the underlying
> event library?  I'm not sure it's a good design for now, but want to
> see the implementation for further discussion.
> 

I think we can build higher sync APIs that make use of async APIs underneath
with a selected event library. Advanced users can make use of async APIs with
their own selected event library.

Thanks
Yuan