> Oh, how I would love for select() and poll() to work on files... or for
> any other working AIO mothods to be present.
> What would get broken if things were changed to let select() work for
> filesystem fds?
It does. They are always readable. If it were to trigger prefetching in that
case then I suspect no harm would occur
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