Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:13:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Fam and FreeBSD: we support polling mode only ? Message-ID: <20020906140720.E39212-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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Hi all, We just noted that SGI's famd (the file alteration deamon) in BSD does have to poll the devices, instead getting noticed by the kernel. How hard would it be to integrate kernel support for this using kqueue ? A neat thing would be to emulate IRIX's /dev/imon ... Also see these posting ... http://groups.google.com/groups?q=netbsd+imon&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20010315153337.A3926%40wasabisystems.com&rnum=2 Martin Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------ ImproWare AG, UNIXSP & ISP, Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, CH Phone: +41 061 826 93 00: +41 61 826 93 01 PGP: <finger -l mbr@freebsd.org> PGP Fingerprint: B434 53FC C87C FE7B 0A18 B84C 8686 EF22 D300 551E ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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