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DateThu, 2 Nov 2006 09:21:58 +0300
FromEvgeniy Polyakov <>
SubjectRe: [take22 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:12:41PM -0800, Nate Diller (nate.diller@gmail.com) wrote:
> Indesiciveness has certainly been an issue here, but I remember akpm
> and Ulrich both giving concrete suggestions.  I was particularly
> interested in Andrew's request to explain and justify the differences
> between kevent and BSD's kqueue interface.  Was there a discussion
> that I missed?  I am very interested to see your work on this
> mechanism merged, because you've clearly emphasized performance and
> shown impressive results.  But it seems like we lose out on a lot by
> throwing out all the applications that already use kqueue.

It looks you missed that discussion - freebsd kqueue has fields in the 
kevent structure which have diffent sizes in 32 and 64 bit environments.

> NATE

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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