[Box Backup-dev] RC3 compile problems on NetBSD

[Ben Summers]

On 18 Feb 2006, at 13:59, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
>> Careful with that -- sounds like a potential API difference.
>
> The kqueue man page (on this NetBSD box) says:
>
>      int
>      kevent(int kq, const struct kevent *changelist, size_t nchanges,
>              struct kevent *eventlist, size_t nevents,
>              const struct timespec *timeout);
>
>      EV_SET(&kev, ident, filter, flags, fflags, data, udata);
>
>      [...]
>
>      The kevent structure is defined as:
>
>      struct kevent {
>              uintptr_t ident;        /* identifier for this event */
>              uint32_t  filter;       /* filter for event */
>              uint32_t  flags;        /* action flags for kqueue */
>              uint32_t  fflags;       /* filter flag value */
>              int64_t   data;         /* filter data value */
>              intptr_t  udata;        /* opaque user data identifier */
>      };
>
> Does that help? I don't have a kqueue man page on my Linux box to  
> compare with.

Here's OpenBSD's and Darwin's

   http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kqueue
   http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/ 
man2/kqueue.2.html

They're all slightly different. I think we need to check we're  
handling this correctly.

Ben