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2020-04-22T03:45:52.108752Z
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kqueue(2): add a note about EV_RECEIPT

In the below-referenced PR, a case is attached of a simple reproducer that
exhibits suboptimal behavior: EVFILT_READ and EVFILT_WRITE being set in the
same kevent(2) call will only honor the first one. This is, in-fact, how
it's supposed to work.

A read of the manpage leads me to believe we could be more clear about this;
right now there's a logical leap to make in the relevant statement: "When
passed as input, it forces EV_ERROR to always be returned." -- the logical
leap being that this indicates the caller should have allocated space for
the change to be returned with EV_ERROR indicated in the events, or
subsequent filters will get dropped on the floor.

Another possible workaround that accomplishes similar effect without needing
space for all events is just setting EV_RECEIPT on the final change being
passed in; if any errored before it, the kqueue would not be drained. If we
made it to the final change with EV_RECEIPT set, then we would return that
one with EV_ERROR and still not drain the kqueue. This would seem to not be
all that advisable.

PR:		229741
MFC after:	1 week

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