Re: VFS/fcntl() feature [PATCH]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:35:12 -0300

In message <19980828170216.A13729@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier
write
s:
+-----
| Alan Cox wrote:
| > This was actually discussed at Linux Expo and before (many times), the
| > favoured idea has been to allow select() on a directory to have those
| > semantics. It also means "top" can select on /proc ;)
| Sure, but how does select() notify the process when a file is modified?
| Note I said modified, not extended.
+--->8

select() on a directory being both nonstandard and currently less than
useful, it can have any semantics we want to give it. Said semantics need
not be exactly analogous to its behavior on non-directories.

(IOW, there's no reason we can't have it mean "any modification" instead of
merely "append".)

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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