PSARC/2007/580 Integrate libevent into Solaris

[James Carlson]

Bart Smaalders writes:
> 	It is possible to disable support for any of these event notification
> 	mechanism by setting the relevant environment variable. This is
> 	documented in the man page.

That's just frightening.  This appears to mean that the internal
design of the library can (in effect) be altered by the end user at
run time.

Any clue why this is a reasonable thing to include in this delivery?
Is there any advantage to allowing the end user of an application
linked to libevent to "tweak" the underlying mechanism?

I can understand perhaps it when compiled with -DDEBUG, but it seems
strange and potentially hazardous otherwise.

> 	In addition, libevent implements interfaces that provide additional
> 	functionality for embedding an event driven http server and buffered

An http server?

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