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

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin%shiningsilence.com@localhost>]

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'.