From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 10:28:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19519 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19377 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:28:30 GMT (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA29630; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:28:23 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA26594; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:28:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980415192740.36405@follo.net> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:27:40 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Eric A. Davis" Cc: edavis@shark.nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add new system calls... References: <19980415125729.03160@follo.net> <199804151712.KAA25752@shark.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199804151712.KAA25752@shark.nas.nasa.gov>; from Eric A. Davis on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 10:12:40AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 10:12:40AM -0700, Eric A. Davis wrote: > Of course a process can only register a monitor with the kernel on file > in which it has access. ;-) > > Any other ideas would be great. It would be nice if the events could be noticed by a 'poll' and 'select', so people could use it to wake up at places where they use that to sleep. Apart from that, I can't think of anything you didn't already cover - perhaps 'wait for modification by user X/process Y', but that doesn't seem too useful. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message