kqueue(2) is currently broken when used with /dev/null and a few other

devices.

An upcoming fix for some problems with the client stdout/stderr handling
relies on it working, so make tmux force libevent to use poll(2) via
EVENT_NOKQUEUE, until we have fixed kqueue.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/server.c b/server.c
index 0a4e2306..e53fc9c7 100644
--- a/server.c
+++ b/server.c
@@ -139,8 +139,11 @@ server_start(char *path)
 		fatal("daemon failed");
 
 	/* event_init() was called in our parent, need to reinit. */
+	if (setenv("EVENT_NOKQUEUE", "1", 1) != 0)
+		fatal("setenv");
 	if (event_reinit(ev_base) != 0)
 		fatal("event_reinit failed");
+	unsetenv("EVENT_NOKQUEUE");
 	clear_signals();
 
 	logfile("server");