On 16/06/20(Tue) 06:18, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:48:58 +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > > > The diff below implements DragonFly's approach of adding a new kind of > > filter, EVFILT_EXCEPT, to report such conditions. This extends the > > existing kqueue interface which is questionable. On the one hand this > > allows userland programs to use kevent(2) to check for this conditions. > > One the other hand this is not supported by any other BSD and thus non > > standard. > > Actually, it looks like macOS uses EVFILT_EXCEPT too. They were > the first OS to implement poll in terms of kqueue as far as I know. > I don't think there is a problem extended kqueue with EVFILT_EXCEPT.
Interesting, is there any open source code from Apple that you could point me at? I'd be interested to study their kqueue interface.
