From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 29 21:29:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F0637B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.41.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B2C43E3B for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost.ne.attbi.com [127.0.0.1]) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8U4U6bj014938; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:30:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8U4U6TO014937; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:30:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:30:06 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues To: vijay singh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kqueue Message-ID: <20020930003006.A14926@attbi.com> References: <20020925081253.GA98975@xs4all.nl> <3D91C011.6F564C34@iprg.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D91C011.6F564C34@iprg.nokia.com>; from vijay@IPRG.nokia.com on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:54:25PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:54:25PM +0300, vijay singh wrote: > Hi, this is in no way related to the kqueue question asked below but to > event notification mechanisms in general. I was wondering if there is > some paper or design that talks about how such a facility could be > provided in a Unix type kernel. Kqueue is fairly recent, and I dont know > what its requirements are but I'm thinking of providing this for an old > 2.x FreeBSD system. Any ideas, pointers or suggestions are appreciated. There is a good kqueue paper on Jonathan Lemon's web page which has pointers to further references: http://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/ -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message