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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:58:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fam and FreeBSD: we support polling mode only ?
Message-ID:  <20020906145636.D39212-100000@levais.imp.ch>
In-Reply-To: <3D78A36B.B4D90ABF@mindspring.com>

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Hi,

> As the kqueue paper points out, /dev/imon is less efficient that
> the kqueue equivalent.

Of course. But it sucks adding kqueue support to all programs which already
use imon support.

I'll do this now for the fam port. Any other programs out there which use
/dev/imon directly ?

That means fam will soon support kqueue to monitor files and not use polling
mode anymore.

Martin


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