ifstated(8) port from openbsd

Samuel J. Greear sjg at evilcode.net
Wed Jun 6 11:29:34 PDT 2012


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However - the other 'gotcha' is that the current implementation

> requires libevent (v1), which we don't include in base. So - to
> bring over ifstated without a major rewrite to use kqueue natively,
> this would need to be pulled in - and the major rewrite kind of
> seems like a waste of time.
>
> So - Wondering if anyone has any strong opinions about including
> libevent in base.
>
>
Yes, I object to libevent being brought back into base. I did the work to
remove it and can say quite definitively, porting a daemon from libevent to
kqueue is not a challenge.

Sam

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However - the other 'gotcha' is that the current implementation<br>=
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requires libevent (v1), which we don't include in base. So - to<br>
bring over ifstated without a major rewrite to use kqueue natively,<br>
this would need to be pulled in - and the major rewrite kind of<br>
seems like a waste of time.<br>
<br>
So - Wondering if anyone has any strong opinions about including<br>
libevent in base.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I object to =
libevent being brought back into base. I did the work to remove it and can =
say quite definitively, porting a daemon from libevent to kqueue is not a c=
hallenge.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sam=A0</div></div>

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