Re: idea: SIGDIRCH, ftpd, efs

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Fri, 9 May 1997 09:05:48 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Wed, 7 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> >select() on directories instead of a signal?
>
> This was proposed at Usenix (and various other times too). I think its the
> right answer and at Usenix Linus said if someone did it he'd consider the
> code..

Personally I think should do something logical and documented for
any descriptor.

> He did object went I suggested you could then select on /proc and wait
> for processes to die/create ;)

Would that be a read, write or exception event? :-)

Mike

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