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Re: Prospective project for Summer of Code.



On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 01:50:58PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 21.03.2017 13:43, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 01:38:09PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> >> I planned to spend my time on kqueue(2)/kevent(2) and aio(3) after May
> >> (full-time effort, but not GSoC). There is a list of bug reports around
> >> these calls and few missing features (I need SIGEV_KEVENT).
> > 
> > The point of the project is not to implement aio on top of kqueue, but
> > to provide a real kernel implementation.
> > 
> > Joerg
> > 
> 
> This part is clear, kevent(2)/kqueue(2) and aio(3) are two diverse
> projects. Just that there is an option that I will focus entirely on the
> former and Raunaq on the latter during GSoC (and his master thesis).
> While Runaq does not need to care about kevent(2)/kqueue(2) improvements
> I can stop caring about implementing real aio(2) myself.

OK, that's not how I read your mail :)

Joerg


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