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| -rw-r--r-- | release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | release/texts/i386/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 diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index a918ea6..ecaafee 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/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 |
