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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:34:40 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? 
Message-ID:  <200107241234.VAA14547@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:08:25 %2B0400." <20010724160822.B10585@nagual.pp.ru> 
References:  <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>  <20010724160822.B10585@nagual.pp.ru> 

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>> We shall provide the "screen saver daemon" and a set of "screen saver
>> programs."  The screen saver daemon will run in the background and
>> periodically checks if the console is idle.  When it finds no
>> activity in the console, it will launch a specified "screen saver
>> program."
>
>No "periodical checks" please. It must wait on poll/select or kqevent or
>something like, event based, event provided by syscons.

Because there already is the CONS_IDLE ioctl, I thought it's
easy for the screen saver daemon to use this ioctl. But, if
kqevent is preferred, we can do that.

Kazu

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