On Maw, 2005-06-21 at 21:06, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Zan Lynx wrote:
>
> > I've never tried doing that. It might work, for all I know.
>
> I was told that Linux cannot do this. It always returns the filehandles as
> ready for disk files.
That is because disk files are always ready - select/poll are for waits
for data (or space) to become available not for events in the sense of
inotify.
That said there *is* scope in the poll() API [but not select()] to add a
new kind of poll notification type.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
