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Sometimes the knote comes early

• unwind 5y ago
  If (like me) you're not into OpenBSD internals, it might not be clear what "knote" means. Not being a native speaker, I thought it was some pun on "knot" or something, but I guess it's simply the internal name used for kernel-side notifications which seems to be a mechanism to have the kernel support the various event libraries better. See the OP's commit [1], it clearly uses the word in function calls etc in the code. See also [2] for relevant man knote(9) page. [1]: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/26eeb0be5e3709df77142e374e46118a8417ca7e https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/26eeb0be5e3709df77142e... [2]: https://man.openbsd.org/knote.9 https://man.openbsd.org/knote.9
  • anotherhue 5y ago
    "Knote" is a homonym of "note" which I would understand in this usage to imply an "off-beat" premature feeling