event

Hey all, Linux have inotify to monitor individual files, or to monitor directories. When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the directory itself, and for files inside the directory. Poor BSD has lacked this for some time, but it seems one clever guy has filled in the...

If I'm running a FreeBSD system without X, but with several virtual terminals doing various things, under certain circumstances I will use vidcontrol() to switch to a particular virtual terminal in case of an alarm event. But I don't want to do that if I'm actively typing in one or another...