From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 10:46:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25463 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shark.nas.nasa.gov (shark.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.34.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25344 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:45:58 GMT (envelope-from edavis@shark.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from shark.nas.nasa.gov (edavis@localhost) by shark.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.7/NAS8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA26162; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804151745.KAA26162@shark.nas.nasa.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund cc: edavis@shark.nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add new system calls... In-reply-to: eivind's message of Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:27:40 +0200.<19980415192740.36405@follo.net> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:45:52 -0700 From: "Eric A. Davis" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Eric Allen Davis Network Engineer edavis@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Voice: (415)604-2543 NAS Systems Division Pager: (415)428-6931 http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~edavis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message