'Completion ports' suggests it's more like 'notify me when the async
I/O I started is finished'. Kqueue does 'notify me when something
writes to the file'.

Jaromir

P.S. I've never used neither competion ports nor file system monitors
     under windows, so it's very likely I speak nonsense here ;)

Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:49:06PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> > Window file change notifications are more related than completion ports,
> 
> Just nitpicking: completition ports are used for async IO, so they are related
> to kqueue/select/poll. I think they are even discussed in the original kqueue
> paper.
> 
> But you were talking about file/directory change notifications, which are just
> a side effect of kqueue - those are usually know as file system monitors in
> windows.
> 
> Martin
> 


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