// $Id$
//
-// Copyright (C) 2007
-// Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
-// Competence Center NETwork research (NET), St. Augustin, GERMANY
+// Copyright (C) 2007
+// Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
+// Competence Center NETwork research (NET), St. Augustin, GERMANY
// Stefan Bund <g0dil@berlios.de>
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
/** \mainpage The SENF Scheduler Library
- The Scheduler library provides a simple yet flexible abstraction
- of the standard asynchronous UNIX mainloop utilizing \c select or
- \c poll. The Scheduler library is based on the highly efficient
- (but linux specific) \c epoll() system call.
+ The Scheduler library provides a simple yet flexible abstraction of the standard asynchronous
+ UNIX mainloop utilizing \c select or \c poll. The Scheduler library is based on the highly
+ efficient (but linux specific) \c epoll() system call.
The library provides
- \li a central \ref Scheduler singleton and
- \li \ref ReadHelper and \ref WriteHelper templates to simplify
- common tasks.
+ \li the ClockService as a reliable high-resolution highly accurate monotonous time source
+ \li a central \ref Scheduler %singleton and
+ \li \ref ReadHelper and \ref WriteHelper templates to simplify common tasks.
- In it's current incarnation, the library only supports network
- file handles (including pipes etc) and simple timers (especially
- it does not support asynchronous notification for on-disc file
- transfers etc). Additional features will be added:
- \li UNIX signal support
- \li async IO support for local (disc) file handles
- \li multi threading support
- \li IPC support for multithreaded applications
+ The Scheduler supports several types of scheduling activites:
+ \li Arbitrary file descriptors (however, local disk file-handles are not guaranteed
+ non-blocking)
+ \li Timers
+ \li UNIX Signals
*/
}