kern/156567: [kqueue] [patch] Add EV_CLEAR to AIO events in kqueue

Tue Jan 31 11:00:33 UTC 2012

The following reply was made to PR kern/156567; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: igor <igor at soumenkov.com>
To: <davidxu at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: kern/156567: [kqueue] [patch] Add =?UTF-8?Q?EV=5FCLEAR=20to?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?=20AIO=20events=20in=20kqueue?=
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:52:10 +0400

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 Hello David, 

 The only thing I changed is the value of the flag,
 this is the only meaning of the patch. I do not know who decided to
 place the value there. 

 On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:04:06 +0800, David Xu
 wrote: 

 > On 2012/1/31 4:47, igor wrote:
 > 
 >> Dear all, What can I do
 to get my patch finally applied or rejected (hope not :) ? My PR is not
 even assigned to anyone. Should I do my best to become a committer (how?
 :-) ? The solution I propose finally allows to use kqueue with aio in
 multi-threaded applications. The only reason I created it is because I
 wanted to use it for myself and it worked flawlessly. Please, anyone?
 >

 > It is better to allocate a member field from struct sigevent for
 kevent
 > flags, we have spare fields available there, please check the
 union
 > _sigev_un.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > David Xu

 -- 
 Igor Soumenkov

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 Hello David,
 The only thing I changed is the value of the flag, this is the only mean=
 ing of the patch. I do not know who decided to place the value there.
 On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:04:06 +0800, David Xu wrote:
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 <pre>On 2012/1/31 4:47, igor wrote:</pre>
 <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p=
 x solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">Dear all, What can I do to get my pat=
 ch finally applied or rejected (hope not :) ? My PR is not even assigned to=
 anyone. Should I do my best to become a committer (how? :-) ? The solution=
 I propose finally allows to use kqueue with aio in multi-threaded applicat=
 ions. The only reason I created it is because I wanted to use it for myself=
 and it worked flawlessly. Please, anyone?</blockquote>
 <pre>It is better to allocate a member field from struct sigevent for keven=
 t
 flags, we have spare fields available there, please check the union
 _sigev_un.

 Regards,
 David Xu

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