From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 17:18: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.ai (cypherpunks.ai [209.88.68.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4189615327 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:17:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from vangelderen.org (hoefnix.ai [209.88.68.215]) by cypherpunks.ai (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EF03B; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 21:17:46 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <3852F788.754F741D@vangelderen.org> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 21:16:56 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Archie Cobbs , abial@webgiro.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modules and sysctl tree References: <91986.944949603@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > In other words, it's not a problem specific to KLD's .. but > > it's still a problem :-) > > Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree > regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become > aware that the sysctl space has changed? I seem to recall that John Poltstra was working on a notification system (for use with CVSup) that would allow you to subscribe to certain change events... Cheers, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org Interesting read: http://www.vcnet.com/bms/ JLF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message