Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-17 Thread James Mansion
Kip Macy wrote: Do you have a set of regression tests for libev? It sounds like they would worth having to regression test kqueue. I would have thought that libevent and libev should both the checked against kqueue. Also APR and everything else that has support. I'm not the author of libev

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-17 Thread Kip Macy
On Dec 17, 2007 1:25 PM, James Mansion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kip Macy wrote: > >> he's just plain misinforme > > Until we know what he is referring to we can't actually say that. > > -Kip > > > > OK he said I could post from our private email so here goes. There were > bits in and around r

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-17 Thread James Mansion
Kip Macy wrote: he's just plain misinforme Until we know what he is referring to we can't actually say that. -Kip OK he said I could post from our private email so here goes. There were bits in and around relating to the Solaris /dev/poll support (and the mechanism's limitations) which I

RE: kqueue and libev

2007-12-16 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Julian Elischer wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > James Mansion wrote: > >> [ On the libev being unhappy with kqueue ] > >> ... > >> It looks like a decent library, but these comments seem > unfortunate. > >> Does anyone know what the author is concerned about? > > > > he's just plain misinform

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-16 Thread Bert JW Regeer
On Dec 15, 2007, at 08:47 , Kip Macy wrote: On 12/15/07, James Mansion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any idea what the author of libev is on about here (from http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod): unsigned int ev_recommended_backends () Return the set of all backends compiled

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread Kip Macy
> > It looks like a decent library, but these comments seem unfortunate. > > Does anyone know what the author is concerned about? > > he's just plain misinformed > Until we know what he is referring to we can't actually say that. -Kip ___ freebsd-hacker

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: James Mansion wrote: Any idea what the author of libev is on about here (from http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod): unsigned int ev_recommended_backends () Return the set of all backends compiled into this binary of libev and also recommended for

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread Julian Elischer
James Mansion wrote: Any idea what the author of libev is on about here (from http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod): unsigned int ev_recommended_backends () Return the set of all backends compiled into this binary of libev and also recommended for this platform. This set

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread Kip Macy
Actually, until recently it was broken on pipes. We've never received any PRs to that effect so there is no way of knowing. You'll have better luck asking the author himself. -Kip On 12/15/07, James Mansion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any idea what the author of libev is on about here (from

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:51:20AM +, James Mansion wrote: >Kqueue deserves special mention, as at the time of this writing, it >was broken on all BSDs except NetBSD (usually it doesn't work with >anything but sockets and pipes, except on Darwin, where of course >its completely

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 15/12/2007, James Mansion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |EVBACKEND_KQUEUE| (value 8, most BSD clones) > Kqueue deserves special mention, as at the time of this writing, it > was broken on all BSDs except NetBSD (usually it doesn't work with > anything but sockets and pipes, except on

kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread James Mansion
Any idea what the author of libev is on about here (from http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod): unsigned int ev_recommended_backends () Return the set of all backends compiled into this binary of libev and also recommended for this platform. This set is often smaller th