[Dovecot] Patch: ioloop using kqueue/kevent for FreeBSD

[Brad]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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> >On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 17:42 +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> >>Only after posting the first patch I realised it is not good enough wrt/
> >>IO_ERROR handling. The attached patch should be better.
> >
> >Thanks, committed. I did a few minor changes so that it's consistent
> >with Dovecot's coding style. Also a few other changes:
> I will try to follow the style.
> 
> >
> >- unsigned char mode:3; -> enum io_condition in the struct. More
> >readable and it doesn't use more space anyway unless you're going to add
> >more fields.
> >
> >- memset() isn't needed after p_new(), it's already guaranteed to be
> >zeroed.
> Ok, I will remember this.
> 
> >
> >I'm not sure if the IO_ERROR handling isn't exactly correct. Can a
> >callback be called twice there when error happens? Anyway, IO_ERROR
> >isn't currently used anywhere. I added it for code that's going to be in
> >Dovecot 2.0 where it needs to know when pipe gets closed.
> I thought about this too. Maybe it can be fixed if its sole purpose is to 
> watch out for pipe/socket getting disconnected. The EV_EOF flag should do 
> just that.
> 
> >
> >What are the AC_CANONICAL_* macros in configure.in? I didn't add them.
> I needed these to make the libtool I use work.
> 
> It would be nice if somebody with FreeBSD or NetBSD could test this patch a 
> little bit under heavier load. My options are in this respect limited.
> 
> 
> Vaclav Haisman

More like can somebody with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD (2.x or newer), DragonFly
or Mac OS X try this out..