kern/45291: kevent(2) ignores timeout if nevents == 0

[John Polstra]

On 13-Oct-2003 John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> John Polstra wrote this message on Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:37 -0700:
>>
>> I disagree.  The current behavior is not correct.  It is inconsistent
>> with the longstanding behavior of both poll() and select().  Also,
>> from a practical standpoint, returning immediately instead of
>> waiting for the timeout to expire makes writing a typical event loop
>> more awkward.  It requires the addition of a special case in the
>> application code to deal with the situation where no events are being
>> awaited.  That's not necessary when using poll() or select().
> 
> Simple fix, you wait for a single event, adding a struct kevent such as:
>       struct kevent ke;
>     ret = kevent(qfd, NULL, 0, &ke, 1, &ts);
> 
> makes it wait the full 10 seconds.  so, are you suggesting that we change
> the behavior to wait for the timeout to expire before we return ANY
> events? (because that is what your suggesting).

That's not what really what I was suggesting, but after thinking it
over some more I think I agree that it's OK as it stands.  Because
you can use kevent() to register events, or wait for events, or both,
I guess it makes sense to ignore the timeout entirely when no events
could possibly be returned.  Sorry for the noise.

John