Bachelor thesis - tevent

Koňař David xkonar07 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz
Fri Nov 30 06:13:02 MST 2012


> On 2012-11-28 at 10:33 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:26:13AM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 09:19:19PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 06:23:11PM +0100, Koňař David wrote:
>> > > > I'm working on a bachelor thesis about tevent event system under
>> > > > supervision of Red Hat branch in Brno. One of its parts is to create
>> > > > a tutorial for tevent.
>> > > >
>> > > > Right now I'm at the beginning of my work and I would like to ask
>> > > > you if there are some important parts in tevent which I should pay
>> > > > extra attention?
>> > >
>> > > Tevent as such is "just" another event library similar to
>> > > libevent or libev or many others. It has two additional
>> > > twists: It is based on talloc, and it can pass on the
>> > > siginfo signal information. Beyond that's there is not
>> > > really much that it adds.
>> > >
>> > > The piece that makes a difference is the tevent_req API.
>> > > This enables composable async sequences of events to be
>> > > coded in C relatively easy. See
>> > > https://tevent.samba.org/group__tevent__request.html for a
>> > > quick overview, and source3/winbind/*.c for a lot of
>> > > examples how it is used.
>> > >
>> > > With best regards,
>> > >
>> > > Volker Lendecke
>> >
>> > I think I had an audio recording of your SambaXP talk on tevent a while
>> > ago. It was only audio, though, no slides or video. Was there any more
>> > recording of that talk? Maybe that would be helpful to David.
>>
>> Sorry, I do not have any slides, because I was showing code.
>> At one time I went through developing a simple example
>> online. We did not videotape that. I am happy to answer
>> questions about tevent though.
>>
>> Someone might still have that example I developed in their
>> samba-team folders. I have that archived somewhere, maybe
>> someone else has quick access to that. Günther? Andreas
>> maybe?
>
> Attached find the git patchset to master from May.
> I applied Volker's demo program, added it
> also to the waf build and then worked some with the
> demo code to learn/understand myself.
>
> Cheers - Michael
>
>

Thank you very much for joining this thread and help. I'll definitely  
take a look at all of it.

Cheers

David Koňař





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