[openbeos] Re: SK: interacting modules

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 01:04:19 +0200 (MEST)

certainly just like the few C funcs I put it the other day...
might be interesting for the kernel...

François.


En réponse à Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > > * Node Monitoring:
> > >   Basically the two functions watch_node() and stop_watching(), but
> 
> > > who
> > >   does the actual work? Is there a Node Monitor (the BeBook 
> > > mentions
> > >   something like this)? ...?
> > 
> > That's handled by the notify_listener() function - the file system 
> > calls that function (a kernel function), and it will somehow trigger
> 
> > the notification of all watching messengers.
> > AFAIK the kernel has no knowledge about BMessages, so it must be 
> > handled by some upper layer - I guess it's either the app_server or 
> > the 
> > registrar, but I dunno.
> 
> I think it may have just enough knowledge to do this. The app_server, 
> for instance, has its own internal BMessage code.
> -Nathan
> 
> 
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