Subject: Re: kqueue, NOTE_EOF
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/12/2003 16:10:18
marius aamodt eriksen wrote this message on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 14:06 -0500:
> > >right - the idea was to preserve existing semantics, while leaving the
> > >poll-like semantics optional.
> > 
> > I'm not sure the "existing semantics" are anything more than a bug that 
> > should be fixed.
> 
> this behavior is useful in, for example,
> 
>    "tail -f"

Why not use EVFILT_VNODE, NOTE_EXTEND for this?

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