Subject: Re: adding fileop kauth(9) scope
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/18/2006 16:59:16
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:

> i don't think kauth is an appropriate framework for your purpose.
> kern_subr.c "hooks", eventhandler, subr_callback.c are.
> hook points should be somehow unified with VN_KNOTE, i guess.

The fileop scope, according to the Apple document, seems exactly
for this purpose: file event notification.

If we won't be implementing it for this purpose, we'll probably
not implement it at all. Is that the direction?

-e.

-- 
Elad Efrat