Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:45:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fam and FreeBSD: we support polling mode only ? Message-ID: <3D78A36B.B4D90ABF@mindspring.com> References: <20020906140720.E39212-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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Martin Blapp wrote: > 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 ? It's there; you just have to register interest in the events. > A neat thing would be to emulate IRIX's /dev/imon ... As the kqueue paper points out, /dev/imon is less efficient that the kqueue equivalent. > 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 This posting is about porting kqueue to NetBSD. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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