Popen and EVFILT_WRITE question

Hi,

from reading the manpage on EVFILT_WRITE I thought it would be an easy to use
interface to detect when a program wants input.
So far, that doesn't seem to be the case. Ultimately what I want to do is pipe
all the popen(3)'d output to a logfile and act on any input it wants.

Could anyone explain to me why I'm never getting the EVFILT_WRITE event in
below testcode?
(It doesn't matter if I open the pipe with w+ or r+).

test.c:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/event.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sysexits.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
FILE *proc;
int kq;
struct kevent changes[2], events[2];

proc = popen("./test.sh", "w+");
if( -1 == (kq = kqueue()) )
err(EX_OSERR, "Cannot get a kqueue");

EV_SET(&changes[0], fileno(proc), EVFILT_WRITE, EV_ADD|EV_ENABLE, 0,
0, 0);
EV_SET(&changes[1], fileno(proc), EVFILT_READ, EV_ADD|EV_ENABLE, 0,
0, 0);

for( ;; )
{
int nev, i;

if( -1 == (nev = kevent(kq, changes, 2, events, 2, NULL)) )
err(EX_OSERR, "kevent");

for( i = 0; i < nev; i++ )
{
char *buf;

if( events[i].filter == EVFILT_READ )
{
if( events[i].flags & EV_ERROR )
{
warn("Event error");
goto END;
}
if( events[i].flags & EV_EOF )
goto END;
buf = malloc(events[i].data);
(void)fread(buf, sizeof(char), events[i].data, proc);
(void)fwrite(buf, sizeof(char), events[i].data, stdout);
free(buf);
}
else if( events[i].filter == EVFILT_WRITE )
{
if( events[i].flags & EV_ERROR )
{
warn("Event error");
goto END;
}
if( events[i].flags & EV_EOF )
goto END;
fprintf(proc, "yes\n");
}
}
}

END:
close(kq);
pclose(proc);
return 0;
}

test.sh:
#!/bin/sh

i=0
while(test $i -lt 3); do
echo sleeping
sleep 1;
i=$((i+1));
done

echo "Do you wanna write? "; read ANSWER
echo $ANSWER


--
Mel
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