Subject: Re: HEADS UP: kqueue support merged
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/24/2002 12:45:07
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:37:00PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:

 > 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.

No, they're not "side-effects".  They're actually first-class events that
kqueue supports.  (NetBSD's kqueue also supports dynamically loading new
event ("filter") types.)

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>