From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 17: 0:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E492437B5E1 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6C00cf20545; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:00:38 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Shane Nay Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSIX Real time extensions Message-ID: <20000711170038.S25571@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <00071114404208.31143@www.easysolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <00071114404208.31143@www.easysolutions.net>; from shane@isupportlive.com on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 02:32:50PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Shane Nay [000711 14:41] wrote: > Curiousity strikes me: > > Is there any present plans to implement the posix realtime signal queues in the > freeBSD kernel? I fear I'm not too up on this portion of developement, but > I've been looking around to see if it's implemented and it looks like it's not > the case. > > I'm writing some library code to deal with signal driven i/o right now, and > presently can only test on Linux. It would be nice if FreeBSD implemented > these features. The feature has been available in linux for some time, but has > just recently stabalized (i.e. become non buggy) in the devel kernels. Have a look at "man kqueue", it's a really nifty interface that works very well. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message