Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:25:27 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes Message-ID: <3DBDC767.F938D446@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20021028162749.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > To build little applets that activate a flashing red light when > > certain files are written? > > Why do you need the inode number to do that. Just kqueue on the > file itself using a regular fd, and in that case you can stat(2) > the file if you really need the i-node number. You don't need > to use libkvm to actually go read the kernel to find this info! Maybe they have to check a SYSV message queue at the same time, but can't use a blocking kqueue call because my System V message queue kqueue patches were never committed. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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