[erlang-questions] Status of kqueue on FreeBSD

[Rickard Green]

Alex Arnon wrote:
> Hi Rickard,
> 
> Is there also such problem on OpenBSD or NetBSD? Or can I safely use 
> kqueue on those platforms?

We haven't had any problems with kqueue on OpenBSD in our daily builds. 
For NetBSD I cannot give you an answer, since we haven't got any NetBSD 
daily build machines.

> In any case, is there an alternative option?
> 

Using poll/select is of course an alternative, but no other kernel-poll 
alternative (our configure test is written to prefer /dev/poll and 
epoll, but those interfaces will probably not be present).

BR,
Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB.

> Cheers,
> Alex.
> 
> 
> On 4/18/07, *Rickard Green* <rickard.s.green@REDACTED 
> <mailto:rickard.s.green@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
>     Oscar Hellström wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I've understood that kqueue support is disabled on FreeBSD due to
>     issues
>      > with (at least) pipes. I've also forced Erlang to build with kqueue
>      > support on FreeBSD and are experiencing weird behaviors.
>      >
> 
>     Kqueue's EVFILT_READ didn't always trigger when writing on a pipe with
>     writev (depending on the buffer sizes used) on FreeBSD.
> 
>      > I cannot find much on this issue on the web though, is this an ERTS
>      > issue or a FreeBSD issue?
> 
>     FreeBSD
> 
>      > Is there work going on to solve it etc?
>      >
> 
>     Not at OTP.
> 
>      > Best Regards
> 
>     BR,
>     Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB:
> 
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