diff --git a/README b/README index 89fe207..52b6950 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 -------------------- 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 ------- `ponymap' is written by Přemysl Janouch .