At 5/6/2001 11:41 AM (Sunday), Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

>But with wildcarding, the current code of isc_event_counts will return that
>event 'A*' has been posted, for example, thrice. But you will still guess,
>what were the names of those three events which have matched your mask. So
>there is a need for getting this information. Because the interface and
>implementation of isc_event_counts cannot be changed without breaking all
>existing applications, I was thinking about new API routine that could help
>to solve this problem.

If my client application registers interest in event 'A*' I would rather be
notified for each A1, A2, A3 event separately and not be notified that
event 'A*' occurred three times.

This would be a change in semantics for 'A*' but a very useful one.