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authorPřemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>2014-09-24 00:10:56 +0200
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@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ of running services of a kind. It should be simple and straight-forward to
either write your own service detection plugins, provided that you're familiar
with writing asynchronous code, or to make changes to the existing ones.
+So far there are some problems with reliability, and some clever algorithm to
+avoid overloading the network is needed. Until then, you can use ulimit to cap
+the maximum number of concurrent connections.
+
Building and Running
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Build dependencies: openssl, clang, pkg-config, GNU make, help2man, Jansson
@@ -32,6 +36,12 @@ After making any necessary edits to the file (there are comments to aid you in
doing that), simply run the appropriate program with no arguments to retrieve
a usage text.
+Author's Notes
+--------------
+This was quite an interesting project to write and it has taught me a lot about
+event loops. It would be relatively simple to plug in libuv if more robustness
+and portability is needed, though.
+
License
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`ponymap' is written by Přemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>.