Nice work! Re: EXPERIMENTAL: tevent_kqueue support

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:47:05AM -0500, Ira Cooper wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
> 
>      Solaris/illumos has /dev/poll, correct?
>      I haven't looked into details, but that should provide the same
>      features
>      as poll(),
>      which means the kernel reports POLLIN and POLLOUT together.
> 
> In re-reading the doc, for port_associate, I think you are right.  It'll do
> that.  But it will only give 1 event per fd.
> 
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1465/port-associate-
> 3c.html#scrolltoc

We should be able to build a tevent backend on top of port_create()/
port_associate()/port_getn() and friends.

The only tricky bit I see is re-adding the fd events that have
fired back (as port_getn() "helpfully" removes them once they've
triggered :-).

Same for kqueue I think.

Jeremy.