[libdispatch-dev] libkqueue

[Mark Heily]

After looking at the differences between kqueue(2) and libevent, I decided 
it would be best to write a very thin wrapper library to emulate kqueue on 
non-BSD platforms. I've gotten pretty far with the effort to port kqueue to 
Linux, and wanted to let  everyone know that this is a work-in-progress. The 
working title of this effort is "libkqueue".

If you are curious, you can download the libkqueue source code from here:

	http://mark.heily.com/src/

Currently, I have implemented the EVFILT_READ, EVFILT_WRITE, and 
EVFILT_SIGNAL filter types. I plan to implement EVFILT_VNODE using inotify, 
and EVFILT_TIMER using timerfds. I might have to implement EVFILT_PROC using 
a helper thread. After the Linux port is complete, I'll consider other 
Unixes such as OpenSolaris. I'm not a Windows developer, so if anyone wants 
to help with a Windows port, that would be great.

It is my hope that the quality and completeness of libkqueue will soon be 
sufficient enough to be used with libdispatch.

Regards,

  - Mark