[ace-users] about ACE Proactor

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi,

        Thanks for providing the version info.

>  ACE VERSION: 5.5.8
>  HOST MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM:  Linux 2.6.20-16-generic and
>Ubuntu 7.04
>
>Hi all:
>    I am developing a UDP server using ACE and found :
>    (1) Proactor do not work on my host ( Linux 2.6.20-16-generic and
>Ubuntu 7.04),
>but works well  on  another on(Windows XP). I  use a client to send
>packets to it and
>seems no packets received by it.

Linux generally has poor support for async I/O, so I recommend not
using the Proactor on it unless you have reason to believe your
version of Linux supports async I/O well.

Thanks,

Doug
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