Re: darwin works with small tweak

[Rory Toma]

Gee, go away for a day and a half and I have a hundred mails to check
on...

I'm currently getting one compile error in Mac OS X:

monit_device.h:23: parse error before "char"
monit_device.h:24: parse error before "char"

#ifndef MONIT_DEVICE_H
#define MONIT_DEVICE_H

char *DeviceInfo_Path(DeviceInfo_T, char *);

The last is line 23. This is almost certainly related to something
completely different, so in between builds at work, I'll try to track
this down.



On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 01:54, Martin Pala wrote:
> Rick Robino wrote:
> 
> >>On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:59:11AM +0200, Martin Pala wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>Oops - it seems that Darwin (unlike Linux, Solaris, *BSD) doesn't have 
> >>poll(). We will probably move to select() because of it (i will look on it).
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Yeah, I see openbsd has it.  In any case, I wish I hadn't mentioned
> >this problem.  Seems wrong to drop poll because of one minority
> >platform.  Darwin is already problematic... maybe this is a sign
> >that it should be avoided in 4.0.
> >
> >The libpool wrapper works so I don't see why any mac folks that
> >really needed monit couldn't just read a note in PLATFORMS telling
> >them where to get libpoll.  The software itself has installation
> >instructions in the makefile.  They will then have to add -lpoll
> >to LIBS in the monit makefile, and maybe even symlink the libpoll
> >stuff under /usr instead of /usr/local but that is not a big pain.
> >
> >Alternatively, this particular platform would be ok to make available
> >as a prebuilt package if there is real concern that folks couldn't
> >handle the compilation.  The poll items could be installed as part
> >of the package.  This would work for all macs, not necessarly all
> >darwin.  You could also pull the libpoll files into monit so you
> >could handle any platform without a real poll...
> >
> >  
> >
> Its OK - select() won't hurt (we use it on another places already). One 
> of the goals is of monit is to be as simple as possible and don't depend 
> on libraries. In the case of monit, only one filedescriptor is polled, 
> in which case poll() has no significant advantage over select(). NetBSD 
> and FreeBSD has poll() too and it is commonly supported in most 
> operating system as select replacement (there are more modern techniques 
> then poll, but they are not standardized). It is standardized since 
> POSIX.1-2001 - who knows why Mac don't support it.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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