Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:15:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. Message-ID: <199909130215.WAA27494@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199909121756.KAA38620@vashon.polstra.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909092224510.15440-100000@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org> <000601befafb$83fbb8c0$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com> <199909091954.PAA13059@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199909121756.KAA38620@vashon.polstra.com>
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<<On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:56:42 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> said: > Just to avoid duplicated effort: I currently have work in progress > on a "fslog" pseudo-device. It enables you to monitor a filesystem > and receive notifications for all interesting changes to files and > directories. However, this is not necessarily duplicative of making polling on files work. For one thing, it's unlikely that we will want to require fslog be universally configured just to make `tail -f' and `biff' work. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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