diff -Naur PyKQueue-1.3/Makefile.pre.in PyKQueue-1.3.new/Makefile.pre.in
--- PyKQueue-1.3/Makefile.pre.in	2004-04-23 00:23:17.000000000 -0700
+++ PyKQueue-1.3.new/Makefile.pre.in	2004-04-23 14:09:10.000000000 -0700
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
 OPT=		@OPT@
 LDFLAGS=	@LDFLAGS@
 LDLAST=		@LDLAST@
-DEFS=		@DEFS@
+DEFS=
 LIBS=		@LIBS@
 LIBM=		@LIBM@
 LIBC=		@LIBC@
diff -Naur PyKQueue-1.3/kqsyscallmodule.c PyKQueue-1.3.new/kqsyscallmodule.c
--- PyKQueue-1.3/kqsyscallmodule.c	2001-01-28 18:59:50.000000000 -0800
+++ PyKQueue-1.3.new/kqsyscallmodule.c	2004-04-23 00:47:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 }
 
 statichere PyTypeObject KQEvent_Type = {
-  PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL)
+  PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type)
   0,                             // ob_size
   "KQEvent",                     // tp_name
   sizeof(KQEventObject),         // tp_basicsize
@@ -291,13 +291,15 @@
 
   /* Build timespec for timeout */
   totimespec.tv_sec = timeout / 1000;
-  totimespec.tv_nsec = (timeout % 1000) * 100000;
+  totimespec.tv_nsec = (timeout % 1000) * 1000000;
 
   // printf("timespec: sec=%d nsec=%d\n", totimespec.tv_sec, totimespec.tv_nsec);
 
   /* Make the call */
 
+  Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
   gotNumEvents = kevent (self->fd, changelist, haveNumEvents, triggered, wantNumEvents, &totimespec);
+  Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
 
   /* Don't need the input event list anymore, so get rid of it */
   free (changelist);
@@ -361,7 +363,7 @@
 statichere PyTypeObject KQueue_Type = {
 	/* The ob_type field must be initialized in the module init function
 	 * to be portable to Windows without using C++. */
-	PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL)
+	PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type)
 	0,			/*ob_size*/
 	"KQueue",			/*tp_name*/
 	sizeof(KQueueObject),	/*tp_basicsize*/