"Add kqueue support to GIO" GSoC project

[Dmitry Matveev <me%dmitrymatveev.co.uk@localhost>]

Hello,

I am a B.Sc. Comp. Sci. student of Nizhny Novgorod State Technical 
University, Russia, and I am interested in NetBSD GSoC projects this 
year.

The most interesting one for me is "Add kqueue support to GIO". The 
task looks obvious and the aims are clean, and I am already mulling over 
the implementation plan.

Integrating kqueue into GIO should be trivial - GFileMonitor provides 
an abstract set of events to monitor. The set is not tied tightly on 
inotify and almost all these events may be expressed with kqueue.

The second part of the task - emulating inotify with kqueue - is a bit 
harder, because inotify provides some events that kqueue does not 
(CLOSE_WRITE, MOVED_TO/MOVED_FROM, ...). This events may be simulated in 
the user space with some additional operations (caching readdir() 
results and etc), but this way potentially has a big overhead. Is it 
acceptable to extend kqueue with additional events for EVFILT_VNODE in 
order to provide a faster and fuller inotify simulation?

Best regards,
Dmitry

P.S. Where should students post their information, project proposals 
and applications? I assume that it is allowed to post such info directly 
on the mailing lists, but probably there is a wiki page about which I 
dont know..