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From: "Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [CFR] Kevent timer improvements
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:16:33 +0100
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> I decided to implement part of it and here is the first patch about
> it: http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/kevent.diff

Unrelated directly, but while you're looking at kqueue/kevent, do you
have any comments to make on my idea:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D153254

I believe it's an important feature missing in the API, that makes
certain userland tasks quite difficult to write, that the kernel could
easily provide information to help.

--=20
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

leonerd@leonerd.org.uk
http://www.leonerd.org.uk/  |  https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS

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