Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:35:27 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [evlog-dev] Re: alternate event logging proposal |
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Larry Kessler wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >>To address your more general point, a general way to notify interested, >>credentialed (is that a word?) 3rd party processes of device events >>would indeed be useful. Since such events are essential out-of-band >>info, netlink might indeed be applicable. > > > Event Logging has both a command and an API for apps in user-space to > register for specific events (kernel or userspace). The user must have > read access to the log file and the proper credentials in the allow/deny > file scheme (that's modeled after crontab).
Ok. And? It sounds like event logging could possibly use netlink as the event delivery mechanism.
Jeff
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