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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>
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