Subject: Re: wsevent cleanup
To: None <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/07/2006 05:41:53
> >> - Add two new functions, wsevent_free and wsevent_inject. The former
> >> returns the amount of free space in the queue and the latter adds a
> >> new event to it. The latter assumes that the queue has at least
> >> one
> >> free slot.
> >
> > I think wseevent_free is a poor name (sonds like the free you do
> > after malloc).
> > Maybe wsevent_available()?
>
> Excellent. I also thought that free was inappropriate but couldn't
> think of a better name :-)
to me, "inject" also sounds weird, given that what it does is
the opposite of read. i'd suggest enqueue or write.
there is very old patch which does something similar.
http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=12132
YAMAMOTO Takashi