Also, this would allow for the new directory notification and leases that
Samba uses in Linux 2.4, so NetBSD could either run the Linux Samba code
under emulation or with a bit of munging, add code to Samba to provide hooks
into this code. Matt talked about limitations of the imon stuff, and I think
that Matt's file leasing is a reasonable shot at the intended function.

I'll provide a URL once Matt returns to England (he was staying with me for
the LCA conference).

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: tech-kern-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-kern-owner@netbsd.org]On
Behalf Of Luke Mewburn
Sent: Monday, 22 January 2001 12:30
To: tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject: consider importing freebsd's kevent() mechanism...

[snip]

The design looks generic enough to expand as necessary.
It's possible to emulate Solaris' /dev/poll and Irix's /dev/imon .

There's links to the slides and paper at:
	http://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/

I think this would be a good thing for us to have.

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