Subject: Re: devd-alike for NetBSD
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jachym Holecek <freza@liberouter.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/08/2005 20:18:20
> Ideally we should have a single daemon the superseeds powerd, ifwatchd
> and devd - with a single kernel interface providing all the interesting
> events. I'm not sure if that's possible though, and it certainly is not
> easy.

I've been ocassionaly missing such an interface. Is there some prior art?
But as you say, doing this would be nontrivial...

> If we would have such a common kernel event interface, I'd prefer some
> binary data from it too, but again this makes the design part hard.

See my reply to Pavel.

	Regards,
		-- Jachym Holecek