[Twisted-Python] Recursive filescanning in Twisted??
Jp Calderone
exarkun at divmod.com
Thu Sep 9 14:03:17 EDT 2004
Jeff Bowden wrote:
> On Linux, file descriptors for disk files are always "ready".
Right.
> Since
> twisted is based on select() or poll() I'm guessing you will end up
> actually blocking on file reads.
Right.
> I think you can get non-blocking file
> reads using the new AIO stuff
On some systems, right.
> but it's not really a good match for a
> single process server like twisted.
Hmm. Why do you say this? It's true that AIO will require reactor
support (IOCP is essentially such a reactor, except for Windows). I
don't see a problem with using AIO in a single process, though, and
apparently neither did Pavel when he wrote IOCP.
> I don't know about BSD/OSX or Windows.
KQueue supports on-disk files, I suspect. There is no working KQueue
reactor, though, so that takes care of BSD/OSX. Windows has IO
Completion Ports, which IOCP uses (hence the name ;).
Jp
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