Re: kqueue

On 2016-04-22 20:39:27 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I vote to leave this patch in the next commitfest where it is, and
> reconsider if someone shows up with a relevant problem report on large
> systems.

Sounds good!


> Here's a new version of the patch that fixes some stupid bugs.  I have
> run regression tests and some basic sanity checks on OSX 10.11.4,
> FreeBSD 10.3, NetBSD 7.0 and OpenBSD 5.8.  There is still room to make
> an improvement that would drop the syscall from AddWaitEventToSet and
> ModifyWaitEvent, compressing wait set modifications and waiting into a
> single syscall (kqueue's claimed advantage over the competition).

I find that not to be particularly interesting, and would rather want to
avoid adding complexity for it.


> While doing that I discovered that unpatched master doesn't actually
> build on recent NetBSD systems because our static function strtoi
> clashes with a non-standard libc function of the same name[1] declared
> in inttypes.h.  Maybe we should rename it, like in the attached?

Yuck. That's a new function they introduced? That code hasn't changed in
a while....

Andres