Re: [Qemu-devel] posix-aio-compat error in 5996

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> Anthony,
>
> On Dec 17, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> Lev Lvovsky wrote:
>>> On OSX 10.5, I get the following error when compiling with revision 
>>> 5996 and higher (5995 compiles).
>>>
>>> As referenced in the initial RFC 
>>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-12/msg00204.html), 
>>> BSD's may not need this - is there any way to avoid using this based 
>>> on OS, or is there something I'm missing in the configure options?
>>
>> Have I mentioned that I strongly dislike OS X?
>>
>> sigqueue is posix, does anyone know of the alternative function to 
>> use for OS X?  I guess we could use kill.
>
> as I wrote to M. Losh, I should have checked the patch in the original 
> RFC, which clearly had a conditional in the makefile for CONFIG_AIO.  
> Running configure with --disable-aio compiled.

I still would like it to work for OS X.  If someone can write up a patch 
replacing sigqueue with the appropriate OS X function, I'd happily apply it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> thanks!
> -lev
>