Subject: Re: consider importing freebsd's kevent() mechanism...
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jaromír Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/22/2001 10:42:13
Luke Mewburn wrote:
> Basically it's a generic kernel event queueing mechanism that is not
> only more scalable that poll(2) or select(2), but it can be used to
> register interest in other such as:
> 	- asynchronous I/O
> 	- vnode changes (delete, write, extend, attrib, link, rename)
> 	- process creation/exit
> 	- signal raised

Sounds cool!

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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