ACE on FreeBSD?

Karim Fodil-Lemelin kfl at xiplink.com
Wed Sep 24 14:27:20 UTC 2008


Mungyung Ryu wrote:
> Hi freeBSD users,
>
> I've developed couple of server applications on Windows platform with ACE
> Proactor
> and it worked quite well. But, because of the expensive Windows Server,
> I wanna move to Linux or freeBSD.
>
> Recently, I'm considering to build a server application on freeBSD but the
> important issue
> is whether the freeBSD supports ACE Proactor framework.
> I googled about it and Linux doesn't support it well because Linux doesn't
> support AIO (asynchronous I/O) on socket.
> Moreover, most of the ACE professionals recommend to use Reactor framework
> on Linux.
>
> My questions is..
>
> 1. freeBSD supports AIO on socket?
>   
Yes
> 2. I can use ACE Proactor framework on freeBSD 7.0 without any problem? Is
> it stable?
>   
It works, although the same Linux recommendation stands for FreeBSD. 
Reactor had much more love then the Proactor on Unices.


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