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>NetBSD's poll(2) implementation is completely different from OpenBSD's,
>and, IMO, better since it's possible to actually implement all of the
>poll events in the NetBSD implemetnation...
>
>To do this, you have to change the interface to the device drivers,
>which is what NetBSD did.

If this is to be implemented in freebsd, and changes to the device driver
interface are necessary, perhaps now is a good time to try to work toward
a standard interface for all the BSD's?  I think that this would be something
that would be really nice to have, and would be well worth the work to
all involoved.  I suppose the easiest way for this to happen would be if
the NetBSD interface, was acceptable to the FreeBSD team.  It might also
be a good step in acheiving architecture independance.

Any thoughts?

Chris Csanady

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