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> 
> BTW, How about daemon programs which need event notification mechanism
> such as select/poll/kqueue?  I think we'd better to have dedicated 
> control files for this purpose.

Er, why?  kqueue doesn't use control files at all.  I would definitely 
recommend using it for acpi->userland notification.

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