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Subject: Re: A (perhaps silly) kqueue question
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Vlad GALU wrote:
> On 3/7/08, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>> 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
> 
>    Ah, yes, sorry. Fresh RELENG_7.
> 
>>  Interstingly I may have seen a similar thing myself,
>>  but fixed it elsewhere.
>>
>>  the question is a valid one..
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

Is this reproducable?  Can you make this happen at will?