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Subject: Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? 
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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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