On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:27:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:17:10PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > I personally do not have objections against it, but it introduces
> > additional complexies - one needs to open /dev/kevent and then perfor
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:17:10PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> I personally do not have objections against it, but it introduces
> additional complexies - one needs to open /dev/kevent and then perform
> syscalls on top of returuned file descriptor.
it disalllows
int fd = sys_kevent_ctl(, KE
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Currently a user can create a user kevents in two ways:
>
> a) simply open() the kevent chardevice
> b) use sys_kevent_ctl with the KEVENT_CTL_INIT cmd type
>
> both are equally easy to use for the user, b
Currently a user can create a user kevents in two ways:
a) simply open() the kevent chardevice
b) use sys_kevent_ctl with the KEVENT_CTL_INIT cmd type
both are equally easy to use for the user, but to support type b) a lot
of code in kernelspace is required. remove type b to save lots of code
