Re: GSoC 2011 project proposal [Add kqueue support to GIO]

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Justin C. Sherrill
<justin%shiningsilence.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, March 29, 2011 11:28 am, Landry Breuil wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Benny Siegert 
>> <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> [removing tech-kern@]
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:41, Julio Merino <jmmv%netbsd.org@localhost> 
>>> wrote:
> [snip]
>>> If I may chime in: other BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MirBSD) might also be
>>> interested in this part as they also have kqueue. (I for one would
>>> readily take this for MirBSD.) Please try to keep this in mind.
>>>
>>> The same goes for the GIO patches. In the configure, test if kqueue is
>>> present and not only if the OS is NetBSD.
>>
>> Yes please, we will also benefit from it in OpenBSD. And it will be
>> welcomed, given how gamin kqueue() backend is reliable... so thanks for
>> volunteering!
>
> DragonFlyBSD had a kqueue() project for Summer of Code 2010, and there's
> more on it proposed for this year:
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/evilsjg/1
>
> I don't know how much intersection there is between these projects, other
> than the word 'kqueue'.

I don't see any overlap.  We may benefit from the outcome of that
project though, but that's a separate issue ;-)

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Julio Merino / @jmmv