The actual proposal was poll() (not select()) flags to block waiting on
specific events (changes to a directory or a file). This allows select() to
behave as it currently does but allows programs which know about poll() to
more efficiently wait on file/directory change events (a file manager would
wait on a directory and update its display, and tail could wait on file
extend instead of doing a non-blocking read once a second).
IIRC aio support is already in progress (already there?) and glibc 2.1 is adding the userspace support.
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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