From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 11: 4:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6324D37BDCA for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA30710; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:04:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200007271804.UAA30710@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which applications are using kqueue ? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: <8lpho5$i7$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In list.freebsd-stable ym g wrote: > I read on appwatch.com that 4.1 has some kernel primitive called kqueue which can replace poll/select. > Are there any applications which use this ? Are there plans for any apps like thin/fast [maybe in kernel] webserver which uses kqueue tail -f is using it, which makes much sense. Without kqueue, tail -f had to poll the file actively every second or something like that. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message