From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 15:45:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7C716A41F; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:45:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1492443D46; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:45:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B81046B9D; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:45:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:45:33 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Alfred Perlstein In-Reply-To: <20050913145356.GO91162@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: <20050913164445.U23515@fledge.watson.org> References: <200407041052.i64Aqs78039847@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050912195632.V96771@fledge.watson.org> <20050913145356.GO91162@elvis.mu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_event.c vfs_mount.c vfs_subr.c src/sys/sys event.h mount.h X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:45:36 -0000 On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> Introduce a new kevent filter. EVFILT_FS that will be used to signal >>> generic filesystem events to userspace. Currently only mount and >>> unmount of filesystems are signalled. Soon to be added, up/down >>> status of NFS. >>> >>> Introduce a sysctl node used to route requests to/from filesystems >>> based on filesystem ids. >>> >>> Introduce a new vfsop, vfs_sysctl(mp, req) that is used as the >>> callback/ entrypoint by the sysctl code to change individual >>> filesystems. >> >> Do you have any plans to update kqueue(2) to describe EVFILT_FS? >> Right now, the existing filter types appear to have useful summaries of >> what they represent, and information on how they are used with objects. >> This would be quite useful to have for EVFILT_FS also. > > Everytime I touch FreeBSD something painful happens to me, I'll pass. If you have any rough notes, I'm happy to experience nroff on your behalf. Robert N M Watson