Hello all-

Solaris 11 has an event ports system that allows monitoring for various types of events from the system. Among those event sources is file events, and I was looking into adding support for those (and possibly other event sources) and noticed that the backend in Pike 9+ already uses event ports on systems that support this for file descriptor based events.

Before I go any farther, I wanted to see if the experts have any thoughts about this (a. whether it’s a good idea to extend the backend on such systems and b. whether there might be a better approach). I know that kqueue() based systems also support other types of events; I’m not sure if that should be taken into consideration, ie. a more general solution.

Thanks in advance,

Bill