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| author | jlemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-05-06 02:33:44 +0000 |
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| committer | jlemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-05-06 02:33:44 +0000 |
| commit | 796be5b52651cb1727e79565d25b60e69d1f738a (patch) | |
| tree | 019fe26c9cdf2985079689cb9e98a685ab76b1f0 /release/texts/alpha | |
| parent | 4b8735f97783ddc7b41664b6f3284ae51cc06411 (diff) | |
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Add blurb about kqueue to the release notes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 7 |
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diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index b26ac92..662945b 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ specifically marked as [MERGED] features. 1.1. KERNEL CHANGES ------------------- +A new event notification facility called kqueue was added to the +FreeBSD kernel. This is a new interface which is able to replace +poll/select, offering improved performance, as well as the ability +to report many different types of events. Support for monitoring +changes in sockets, pipes, fifos, and files are present, as well as +for signals and processes. [MERGED] + Support for named extended attributes was added to the FreeBSD kernel. This allows the kernel, and appropriately privileged userland processes, to tag files and directories with attribute data. Extended attributes |
