Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:10:18 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Niels Provos <provos@monkey.org>, hackers@openbsd.org, Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>, tech-kern@netbsd.org, Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> Subject: Re: kqueue, NOTE_EOF Message-ID: <20031113001018.GM64793@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031112190635.GE2942@monkey.org> References: <20031110174109.GA13852@monkey.org> <200311120858.hAC8wFfg001905@s102-n054.tele2.cz> <20031112172750.GB14368@netbsd.org> <20031112184042.GC2942@monkey.org> <A6E3417C-1541-11D8-9DA8-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com> <20031112185738.GD2942@monkey.org> <777AA90C-1542-11D8-9DA8-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com> <20031112190635.GE2942@monkey.org>
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marius aamodt eriksen wrote this message on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 14:06 -0500:
> > >right - the idea was to preserve existing semantics, while leaving the
> > >poll-like semantics optional.
> >
> > I'm not sure the "existing semantics" are anything more than a bug that
> > should be fixed.
>
> this behavior is useful in, for example,
>
> "tail -f"
Why not use EVFILT_VNODE, NOTE_EXTEND for this?
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