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Subject: Re: [evlog-dev] Re: alternate event logging proposal 
In-Reply-To: Message from Larry Kessler <kessler@us.ibm.com> 
   of "Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:11:31 MST." <3D90D503.8F4CDEB6@us.ibm.com> 
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:27:29 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Larry Kessler <kessler@us.ibm.com> said:

[...]

> Event logging uses real-time signaling to notify a process that's registered
> for notification that an event matching the criteria defined during 
> registration has been written to the event log.  When notified, the process
> can read the entire event from the event log and then do whatever.

How is said event found? By scanning the whole log?
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