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Cc: Mel <fbsd.hackers@rachie.is-a-geek.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Popen and EVFILT_WRITE question
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:

DS>Mel <fbsd.hackers@rachie.is-a-geek.net> writes:
DS>
DS>> 	EV_SET(&changes[0], fileno(proc), EVFILT_WRITE, EV_ADD|EV_ENABLE, 0,
DS>> 			0, 0);
DS>> 	EV_SET(&changes[1], fileno(proc), EVFILT_READ, EV_ADD|EV_ENABLE, 0,
DS>> 			0, 0);
DS>
DS>This is never going to work.
DS>
DS>First, the second kevent overrides the first, because they both have the
DS>same ident.

Why is that so? The man page states that the kevent is identified by the
(ident, filter) pair. This would also make more sense, because with
bi-directional descriptors (sockets or so) you might want to 'select' on read
and write.

harti