epoll's handle-centric design is more composable than kqueue's filter-centric design (2021)
8 points by runxiyu
8 points by runxiyu
previously under the actual title of "actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt". It fails to present evidence for the title claim and misinterprets Linux-compatibility shims as evidence of a philosophical shift.
The article mentions that
Interestingly, FreeBSD has added support for Linux’s eventfd recently
Recently FreeBSD has also added support for inotify, and before that it implemented epoll as a wrapper around kqueue to support more software.