Subject: Re: Has anyone ported Niels Provos' libevent?
To: NetBSD Help mailing list <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/05/2002 12:18:42
Chris Wareham wrote:
> While poking around the OpenBSD Journal website, I came
> across a mention of Niels Provos' libevent library:
> 
>   http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
> 
> This looks like a really neat bit of code, but as you
> can no doubt guess, I run NetBSD rather than Open. So
> has anyone ported libevent to NetBSD? If not is it likely
> that it could be easily ported? I know that the same
> authors systrace made a rapid transition from OpenBSD to
> Net, so I'm hoping that the same could be true for
> libevent.
> 

To answer my own question ...

It works fine on NetBSD (tested on 1.5.2 here), and I was
pleasantly surprised to find it works on Linux as well.

Chris

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