Subject: Re: HEADS UP: kqueue support merged
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Dan Melomedman <dan%dan.dan@devonit.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/24/2002 11:01:03
Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> > This particular feature has been missing in Unix systems for a long
> > time, and it's good it's finally coming to NetBSD too.
>
> How compatible is this new NetBSD feature with other operating systems?
> Do they provide similar interfaces? Is there a standard on this?
>
> It's good to have that interface! As people need to change 3rd party
> applicaiton code (apache, ircd, samba, ...) to use it, compatibility with
> other systems to reduce code maintenance costs and increase portability
> would be nice to have, hence my question.
FreeBSD has it, I think OpenBSD has it too. Linux doesn't. Windows has
completion ports (is this at all related)?