kqueue and libev

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:51:20AM +0000, James Mansion wrote:
>    Kqueue deserves special mention, as at the time of this writing, it
>    was broken on all BSDs except NetBSD (usually it doesn't work with
>    anything but sockets and pipes, except on Darwin, where of course
>    its completely useless).

You normally don't get useful writeable/readable state for files, if
that is what the author means. This is the same situation as you have
with poll(2) and select(2) though. Otherwise I can't think of what he
could mean.

Joerg