Re: native inotify implementation

On Sun, 18 May 2025 11:35:50 +0100
David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote:

[...]
> Unfortunately, this then decays to a special case of the ‘we need a useful
> broadcast / multicast message bus with sensible access control that can fan
> out to relays for jails and users’ problem that remains the blocker for most
> of the things I want to build for FreeBSD.

I'd say this useful even without jails, and with no distinction between
objects in processes and objects in kernel. Something like in-kernel MQTT 5
(yes, 5 - it has response topics and user properties).
Existing solutions (e.g. netlink) are too narrow in scope and too low level.

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