> 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.
Who cares? :) select() on a dir can be very useful, and it is certain
possibly under Linux.
I can't count the number of times I've had to write various hacks to
work around the lack of this feature.
Jeff
> (IOW, there's no reason we can't have it mean "any modification" instead of
> merely "append".)
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