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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:08:25 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments?
Message-ID:  <20010724160822.B10585@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
References:  <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 21:07:40 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD
> screen savers.  

Good idea.

> 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.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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