kqueue

A binding of kqueue on Ruby.

kqueue can use BSD system only. (because must be installed sys/event.h)

Usage

require 'kqueue'

# Inheritance
# class Kqueue < IO
#   # ident: file descriptor identifier for this event
#   # filter: filter for event(just one)
#   # flags: general flags(complex fragment)
#   # fflags: filter-specific flags(complex fragment)
#   # data: filter-specific data
#   # udata: opaque user data(can set any object)
#   class Event < Struct.new(:ident, :filter, :flags, :fflags, :data, :udata)
#     # Event::Constants include all kqueue constants
#     include Event::Constants
#   end
# end

# create kqueue object and ensure close
Kqueue.open do |kq|
  # ...
end

# or
begin
  kq = Kqueue.new
  # ...
ensure
  kq.close
end

# watch event
IO.pipe do |r, w|
  Kqueue.open do |kq|
    kev = Kqueue::Event.new(r.fileno, EVFILT_READ, EV_ADD, 0, 0, proc {
      puts "you can read #{r.fileno} with non block!"
    })
    # set a event
    kq.kevent([kev], 0)

    # wait a event
    # wait until event occur
    kq.kevent(nil, 1)

    # wait 0.1 sec
    kq.kevent(nil, 1, 0.1) #=> []

    w.write 'ok go'
    w.flush

    # get a notified event
    kevs = kq.kevent(nil, 1) #=> [#<a Event object>]

    # udata have one any object
    kevs.first.udata.call #=> you can read 7 with non block!
  end
end

filter

filter	description
EVFILT_READ	on read
EVFILT_WRITE	on write
EVFILT_AIO	attached to aio requests
EVFILT_VNODE	attached to vnodes
EVFILT_PROC	attached to struct proc
EVFILT_SIGNAL	attached to signal
EVFILT_TIMER	timers
EVFILT_MACHPORT	Mach portsets

flags

flags	description
EV_ADD	add event to kq (implies enable)
EV_DELETE	delete event from kq
EV_ENABLE	enable event
EV_DISABLE	disable event (not reported)
EV_ONESHOT	only report one occurrence
EV_CLEAR	clear event state after reporting
EV_RECEIPT	force EV_ERROR on success, data == 0
EV_ERROR	error, data contains errno(returned value)
EV_EOF	EOF detected(returned value)

fflags

fflags	description
NOTE_DELETE	vnode was removed
NOTE_WRITE	data contents changed
NOTE_EXTEND	size increased
NOTE_ATTRIB	attributes changed
NOTE_LINK	link count changed
NOTE_RENAME	vnode was renamed
NOTE_REVOKE	vnode access was revoked
NOTE_EXIT	process exited
NOTE_EXITSTATUS	exit status to be returned, valid for child process only
NOTE_FORK	process forked
NOTE_EXEC	process exec'd
NOTE_SIGNAL	shared with EVFILT_SIGNAL
NOTE_REAP	process reaped

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'kqueue'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install kqueue

Pro Tips

Support call without GVL in CRuby (use rb_thread_call_without_gvl())

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