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Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> That is an interesting idea, such an implementation could potentially replace 
> all existing back-ends with the exception of the Windows IOCP back-end. 
> However libev doesn't seem to provide a non-blocking poll which is required 
> for NIO (ev_loop always blocks AFAIK).
>   
I'll ask Marc. Would have thought that it wouldn't be too hard to 
arrance an immediate timeout or to register a known-available fd too 
(/dev/null?)

James