From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org  Wed Apr 27 11:20:28 2016
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1818CB1E117
 for <freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>;
 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:20:28 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com)
Received: from kib.kiev.ua (kib.kiev.ua [IPv6:2001:470:d5e7:1::1])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (Client did not present a certificate)
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7C911532;
 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:20:27 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com)
Received: from tom.home (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by kib.kiev.ua (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id u3RBKDpY073053
 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO);
 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:20:13 +0300 (EEST)
 (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com)
DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 kib.kiev.ua u3RBKDpY073053
Received: (from kostik@localhost)
 by tom.home (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u3RBKDUg073052;
 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:20:13 +0300 (EEST)
 (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com)
X-Authentication-Warning: tom.home: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com
 using -f
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:20:13 +0300
From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: RFC on a published change to FreeBSD 11 kqueue file ops.
Message-ID: <20160427112013.GT2422@kib.kiev.ua>
References: <d8be7f2b-10cb-5803-c970-199a80f351b7@freebsd.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <d8be7f2b-10cb-5803-c970-199a80f351b7@freebsd.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01)
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,
 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED autolearn=no
 autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on tom.home
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
 <freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-current>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:20:28 -0000

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:32:05AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> the following change is sitting out at github, to add kqueue support 
> for more file operations:
> 
> https://github.com/dmatveev/libinotify-kqueue/blob/master/patches
> 
> does anyone have reasons why we shouldn't import this change.
> 
> libinotify is now a port and could use these.
> 

Enabling open(2) on symlinks looks too radical.  I will handle other
patches.