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Re: Type of udata in kevent



On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 08:41:43AM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> Aside from incompatible APIs, I think kqueue design is flawed, i.e. for
> read/write events on files, it can return the same file descriptor,
> which makes tracking those descriptors a bit of a chore.

It also is extremely flawed when you want to watch whole file system
hierachies. Even the Win32 API is way better.

We should seriously look at dumping kqueue for something better (tm).

Martin


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