[Dovecot] BSD people, please test kqueue changes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 17 00:26:57 EEST 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 23:21 +0200, Václav Haisman wrote:
> > I'd guess the hangs caused by recent RC versions were because the
> > default was to use notify=kqueue instead of notify=none. I changed this
> > back to none unless --with-ioloop=kqueue is used.
> Just a first thought before I take a closer look: The notify stuff uses
> kqueue but its functionality is not dependent on ioloop kqueue. It
> should be possible to use kqueue notify with select or poll based ioloop.

Yes, but since it seems that poll/kqueue combination started causing
people to report hangs I think it's safer to just not do it by
default. :)

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