Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

With provided patch it is possible to wakeup 'for-free' - just call
kevent_ctl(ready) with zero number of ready events, so thread will be
awakened if it was in poll(kevent_fd), kevent_wait() or
kevent_get_events().

Yes, I realize that.  But I wrote something else:

>> Rather than mark an existing entry as ready, how about a call to
>> inject a new ready event?
>>
>> This would be useful to implement functionality at userlevel and
>> still use an event queue to announce the availability.  Without this
>> type of functionality we'd need to use indirect notification via
>> signal or pipe or something like that.

This is still something which is wanted.

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