test_evfilt_proc tests

[Patrick Nip]

I am wondering when will the test_evfilt_proc tests be fix? The reason I asked is that I am planning to use libkqueue for EVFILT_PROC but am a little hesitate when I see fixme everywhere and it seems there are issues with the ut.

[Mark Heily]

On Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:29:55 AM UTC-4, Patrick Nip wrote:

I am wondering when will the test_evfilt_proc tests be fix? The reason I asked is that I am planning to use libkqueue for EVFILT_PROC but am a little hesitate when I see fixme everywhere and it seems there are issues with the ut.

Sorry, the EVFILT_PROC filter is not implemented, and would be very hard to implement because there is no equivalent functionality in other non-BSD operating systems.

 - Mark

[Eric Wong]

I'm not familiar with either, but I seem to recall netlink in Linux offers
similar functionality. I know "god" supports it:

git clone git://github.com/mojombo/god
cd god && cat ext/god/netlink_handler.c

[Mark Heily]

Unfortunately, netlink is only available to the root user, so it cannot be used to emulate EVFILT_PROC.