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Alexander Viro wrote:

> On 16 Feb 2000, david parsons wrote:

> > On a real operating system, the OS would simply notify userland, which
> > would do whatever it wanted to do. [...]

> > Think about kerneld/kmod/whatever it is this week.
>
> Oh, _please_! kmod is the last thing you want here.

You're suffering, I'm afraid, from an almost pathological lack of
imagination. I'm pointing out kerneld/kmod/whatever as an example
of punting kernel events out to userspace for a daemon to deal
with, not saying "we should do it exactly like kerneld, or kmod,
or whatever the fuck the interface is this week"

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david parsons \bi/ Just what IS the interface this week, anyway?
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