Re: idea: SIGDIRCH, ftpd, efs
Mike Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Fri, 16 May 97 18:36:48 EDT
| 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.
>From a programming standpoint, I have always wanted tail -f to be done with a
select (w/o timeout), instead of the stat/sleep loop it current uses.
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