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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:45:31 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
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Subject: Re: Fam and FreeBSD: we support polling mode only ?
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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

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