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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2005 14:31:36 +0200
From:      Sebastien Petit <spe@phear.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        jeremie@le-hen.org
Subject:   Re: SIOCGIFMEDIA problems
Message-ID:  <20050516143136.4dea9cb9.spe@phear.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050516094309.GD777@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
References:  <20050513111013.41905e73.spe@phear.org> <m2wtq3cnkz.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <20050513191705.61d2b742.spe@phear.org> <20050516094309.GD777@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>

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On Mon, 16 May 2005 11:43:09 +0200
Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> wrote:

> Hi Sebastien,
> 
> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:17:05PM +0200, Sebastien Petit wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> as a side note, you may wish to use the kqueue(2) framework to watch
> at link stat changes.  The main advantage is that it will change the
> way it works from a polling model to a notification model.  One major
> drawback in your situation (portable software) is that kqueue(2) only
> exists in BSD world, not in Linux.
> 

Hi Jeremie,

As I can see in kqueue man, I can only monitor events by file descriptor (read/write), a process id, a signal or a timer (under NetBSD 2)
How I can use it for monitoring link status change on a network card ?

Regards,
Sebastien.
-- 
spe@b0l.org



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