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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: kqueue implementation
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Daniel Molina Wegener wrote this message on Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:48 -0400:
> On Monday 21 May 2007 03:57:58 John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Daniel Molina Wegener wrote this message on Sun, May 20, 2007 
> at 18:31 -0400:
> > >    I'm coding an application using the kqueue facility, but
> > > I see that I can't handle open and read events. Is planned
> > > to implement these handlings in the future?. Also, which
> > > facility can I use to handle these kind of events?
> >
> > I'm unsure what you mean by open and read events?  Do you
> > mean getting an event when another process opens are file? 
> > or?  As for read, they work fine for sockets, as w/ select,
> > files are always ready to read even though they may block to
> > read from disk...
> 
> I mean vnode events, in the manual page I see NOTE_WRITE, but I
> need NOTE_OPEN and NOTE_READ. Is there any chance to get these
> kind of events?

Yes, it should be possible...   You should ask Suleiman Souhlal (cc'd)
(ssouhlal) who did some recent work in that area...

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