Re: kern/55663 (Support for EVFILT_USER in kqueue(2))

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55663; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: jnemeth%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	nruslan_devel%yahoo.com@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/55663 (Support for EVFILT_USER in kqueue(2))
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:05:26 +0200

 On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:25:01PM +0000, Ruslan Nikolaev wrote:
 >  1. Why is it needed?
 >  
 >  Quite a few applications use it. To be specific, please consider Nginx. 
 >  Although, it *does* compile under NetBSD, several critical features are 
 >  missing without EVFILT_USER.
 
 That's a strawman. By that reasoning, we should add epoll(2). There is
 nothing in Nginx that needs it, just that the code currently requires
 it. That's a big difference.
 
 Joerg