Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:04:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: "Eric A. Davis" <edavis@nas.nasa.gov>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add new system calls... Message-ID: <19980415110441.A938@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415112409.7475Y-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from "Matthew N. Dodd" on Wed Apr 15 11:24:29 GMT 1998 References: <19980415125729.03160@follo.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415112409.7475Y-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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In the last episode (Apr 15), Matthew N. Dodd said: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > YES! I've been missing this since I left my Amiga 5 years ago! > > > > Does the above imply watching for changes in directories, too? Ie, > > file added to directory, notification sent... > > > > What level of notification? Do you get information saying 'file so > > changed atime to XXX'/'file XXX added to directory', or just a flag > > saying 'event so happened on descriptor so'? > > Mmm... tripwired Sort of like tripwire, but in real time. The Amiga has a feature where you could monitor a file or directory for changes. Imagine cron getting a signal when /var/cron/tabs changes. Or any other daemon that has a config file. There's a description of the function (but not the assosicated structures unfortunately) at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~lucass/autodoc/dos.htm#StartNotify() So, how many of you people _were_ Amiga hackers in a previous life? -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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