Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 16:00:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), doconnor@Ist.flinders.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <199709071500.QAA23059@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Sep 1997 14:15:31 -0000." <199709071415.HAA08027@usr09.primenet.com>
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> Or maybe he's like me, and he can't get the thing to idle disconnect
> because of the !@#$! keep-alives that are near-impossible to turn
> off if you have a local net as well.
Hmm. I have a local net of 8 machines, and I don't have any such
problems. Of course you know about "set afilter".
The thing I don't understand is how re-writing anything is going to
solve a problem where people want the link to shutdown subliminally :-)
> There are a lot of general uses, besides PPP, for interface event
> notification. PPP just uses one of them.
Agreed.
> In answer to te original question, yes, it's possible, if you are the
> packet transporter and use the tunnel devices, just like iijppp, to
> let you sleep waiting for a packet "event". But there is no general
> event interface, even though it's becoming more and more of a kludge
> to not have one (e.g.: say I want to register for a directory change
> event because I'm a file browser, and I want to see files show up
> immediately, not after 10's of seconds when my poll-the-directory
> timer fires off).
You've been working w/ Windoze too long !!! You're becoming a
heretic !
Perhaps that idea warrants some sort of ability to do a select() on a
seekable file. If you've got the O_APPEND flag, select will return
when there's more data at the end (tail(1) would be almost perfect).
When you haven't got O_APPEND, maybe a file update would wake up the
select().
Of course the implementation is trivial ;-I (not)
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
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