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From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To: Eric Badger <badger@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Kqueue and threading
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 12:48:03PM -0500, Eric Badger wrote:

> Sharing a kqueue between threads of a process works. Are the workers

Can you comment PR207261?

> created  using rfork without RFFDG as suggested in the manpage? I've
> never had reason to do this, but a quick test seems to indicate that it
> works as advertised. A normal fork closes the kqueue file descriptor. If
> you suspect that's what's happening, you might run "procstat -f {worker
> pid}" to see if file descriptors with a "k" (kqueue) in the "T" (type)
> column appear (if not, they were presumably closed on the fork).
> 
> Eric
>