Matthew Hagerty wrote: > I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another > process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. kqueue and kevent are going to do > it for me on *BSD, but I'm also trying to support *cough* linux and other > UN*X types OSes. > > >From what I can find on google, the linux community seems very opposed to > kqueue and has not yet implemented it (they say: blah blah blah, aio_*, > blah blah balh.) What alternatives do I have with OSes that don't support > kqueue? I'd really hate to poll with stat(), but do I have any other > choices?
The Linux community doesn't like level triggered instead of edge triggered. Basically, the KNOTE macro need another parameter, which can be used as a rendesvous between a kevent and user space. It has the advantage of not limiting the PID's to 16 bits, as well. I posted patches for this about 6 months ago. -- Terry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
