Martin Blapp wrote: > We just noted that SGI's famd (the file alteration deamon) in BSD > does have to poll the devices, instead getting noticed by the kernel. > > How hard would it be to integrate kernel support for this > using kqueue ?
It's there; you just have to register interest in the events. > A neat thing would be to emulate IRIX's /dev/imon ... As the kqueue paper points out, /dev/imon is less efficient that the kqueue equivalent. > Also see these posting ... > >http://groups.google.com/groups?q=netbsd+imon&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20010315153337.A3926%40wasabisystems.com&rnum=2 This posting is about porting kqueue to NetBSD. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
