From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 6 5:53:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF7937B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 05:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.imp.ch (mail.imp.ch [157.161.1.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192FA43E42 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 05:53:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mb@imp.ch) Received: from nbs.imp.ch (nbs.imp.ch [157.161.4.7]) by mail.imp.ch (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g86CrPO9082477; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:53:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Martin.Blapp@imp.ch) Received: from levais.imp.ch (levais.imp.ch [157.161.4.66]) by nbs.imp.ch (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g86CrO75409326; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:53:25 +0200 (MES) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:58:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp To: Terry Lambert Cc: Subject: Re: Fam and FreeBSD: we support polling mode only ? In-Reply-To: <3D78A36B.B4D90ABF@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020906145636.D39212-100000@levais.imp.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message