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Re: RFC: generic notification mechanism



Antti Kantee wrote:
> First things first, why is the naming non-standard and why does it have
> a funny nb-prefix?

Because nothing better come to my mind. So I just decided to present
the code and hope, someone else has some ideas.

> Second, to be really useful for userspace, the API should allow for IPC.
> The currrent one doesn't.
> 
> Third, how is this fundamentally different from subr_callback?

It's not. I was not aware of its existence. It has no manpage either.

Ok, I will use the callback(9) API then.

Christoph


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