Updated documentation, refer to all the supported IO APIs.

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Alexander Barton 2006-12-28 13:53:19 +00:00
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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 1.24 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $
$Id: INSTALL,v 1.25 2006/12/28 13:53:19 alex Exp $