Nice work! Re: EXPERIMENTAL: tevent_kqueue support

[Ira Cooper]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
<metze at samba.org>wrote:

> Am 06.03.2013 11:21, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 16:36 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:29:19PM +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yes, more clear than commit 83ce1f9d9504156ea1b8e2a4f5655a48b5bcd1f1 is
> >>> not possible :-)
> >>
> >> Ok, reviewed and pushed to autobuild.
> >>
> >> Here is the bug I created to back-port all the
> >> tevent library changes to v4-0-test so we
> >> can these released. Patchset is attached to
> >> the bug.
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9695
> >
> > I've only looked at this from the sidelines, but I wanted to say a big
> > congratulations to all of you involved in this effort.  As I understand
> > it, this isn't just a minor update to tevent as the version number
> > suggests, it really is a major fix of some of the long-standing issues
> > while also adding an important operating mode for FreeBSD.
>
> Thanks! There are some FreeBSD fixes, but the kqueue support is still
> not there
> and I'm not sure it will make it in future. The problem is that
> the kernel doesn't tell the caller the full details about the
> file descriptor state, read and write are always reported independently.
>
>
Metze,

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.  Can we not support cases
where read/write are reported independently?

That may be a problem for Solaris/illumos "port" support.

-Ira