On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:45:21PM -0500, Brian Grayson (home) wrote:
>   It seems like the Right Thing is for the kernel to provide some kind
> of notification, whether it's by writing to a socket that a daemon
> is blocked on, or something like that.  Does NetBSD currently have
> such a mechanism for anything?  It seems like it's sort of similar to
> /proc and /kern (fd with one end handled by the kernel), although
> they don't usually block.  But I'm no kernel hacker!  (It shows!)

I think the routing socket provide that.
BTW, I also think link up/down events should be reported too.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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