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Subject: Re: Why add the general notification queue and its sources
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Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> Something else which we should consider up front is how to handle the
> case where you have multiple userspace processes that want to
> subscribe to the same notification.

I have that.

> This also implies that we'll need to have some kind of standard header
> at the beginning to specify the source of a particular notification
> message.

That too.

David