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Subject: Re: A (perhaps silly) kqueue question
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Vlad GALU wrote:
>    I see an unusual symptom with one of our in-house applications. The
> main I/O loop calls kevent(), which in turn returns two events with
> EV_EOF error set, always for the same descriptors (they're both socket
> descriptors). As the man page is not pretty clear about it and I don't
> have my UNP copy at hand, I would like to ask the list whether the
> error events are supposed to be one-shot or not.
>    Thanks for your kind input.
> 

You don't specify which version you are running

Interstingly I may have seen a similar thing myself,
but fixed it elsewhere.

the question is a valid one..