From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 21 19:42: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D8137B405 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBM3dgV68017; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:39:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:39:42 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: rsharpe@ns.aus.com Cc: Alfred Perlstein , FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding si_fd to struct __siginfo ... Message-ID: <20011221223942.B59246@espresso.q9media.com> References: <3C23AF6E.90202@ns.aus.com> <20011221164429.U48837@elvis.mu.org> <3C23C80B.6030509@ns.aus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C23C80B.6030509@ns.aus.com>; from sharpe@ns.aus.com on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 10:08:51AM +1030 Organization: The FreeBSD Project 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 Richard Sharpe writes: > >There was already a big mess of a discussion about how this would > >be much better done via kqueue than with realtime signals. > > > >I guess if you can get a working implementation that is compatible > >with the existing interfaces it would work, however it's a _much_ > >better idea to use kqueue to deliver this sort of notification. > > > >And yes, it has been discussed in the lists already. > > > OK, I will go and look at the discussion ... Unfortunately this discussion mistakenly took place on a FreeBSD mailing list intended for administrative-only issues, so it isn't publicly available on our end. Luckily, a Samba mailing list was on the CC line. You should be able to find it on the archives circa September 2001. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message