ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
- (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
+ (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton,
alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
The Z compression library ("libz") is required for this option.
* IO Backend (autodetected by default):
+ --with-select[=<path>] / --without-select
+ --with-poll[=<path>] / --without-poll
+ --with-devpoll[=<path>] / --without-devpoll
--with-epoll[=<path>] / --without-epoll
--with-kqueue[=<path>] / --without-kqueue
- ngIRCd can use three different IO "backends": the "old school" select()
+ ngIRCd can use different IO "backends": the "old school" select() and poll()
API which should be supported by most UNIX-like operating systems, or the
- more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux 2.6) or kqueue() (BSD) APIs.
+ more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux >=2.6), kqueue() (BSD) and
+ /dev/poll APIs.
By default the IO backend is autodetected, but you can use "--without-xxx"
- to disable a more enhanced API and force the daemon to use select().
+ to disable a more enhanced API.
+ When using the epoll() API, support for select() is compiled in as well by
+ default to enable the binary to run on older Linux kernels (<2.6), too.
* IDENT-Support:
--with-ident[=<path>]
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-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.23 2005/12/30 22:43:23 alex Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.26 2007/04/08 11:39:08 alex Exp $