Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:45:52 -0700 From: "Eric A. Davis" <edavis@nas.nasa.gov> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: edavis@shark.nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add new system calls... Message-ID: <199804151745.KAA26162@shark.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: eivind's message of Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:27:40 %2B0200.<19980415192740.36405@follo.net>
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:27:40 +0200 Eivind Eklund wrote
>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.
>
Most definitely. A process gets a file desc from the kernel which
all events are written. It's a must that a process should be able to
select on the file desc.
- e
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