Am Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 10:05:05PM +0100 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
> On 2022/04/30 13:51, Visa Hankala wrote:
> > I am in two minds about EVFILT_USER. On the one hand, having it on
> > OpenBSD might help with ports.
>
> No opinion on the addition, but I don't think we ran into this in ports
> so
On 2022/04/30 13:51, Visa Hankala wrote:
> I am in two minds about EVFILT_USER. On the one hand, having it on
> OpenBSD might help with ports.
No opinion on the addition, but I don't think we ran into this in ports
so far. There is software in ports which can use it but it can all work
without
On 2022-04-30, Visa Hankala wrote:
> I am in two minds about EVFILT_USER. On the one hand, having it on
> OpenBSD might help with ports. On the other hand, it makes the kernel
> perform a task that userspace can already handle using existing
> interfaces.
I agree you could do this with just a
It has been asked in the past if OpenBSD's kevent(2) should implement
user event filters, also known as EVFILT_USER. This filter type
originates from FreeBSD but is now available also on DragonFly BSD,
NetBSD, and macOS.
Below is an implementation of EVFILT_USER. The logic should be fairly
