Are you talking about the serial number scheme in general, or Alan's
poll() problem?
W.r.t. poll(), a good point. One bit of state needs to be maintained
per file descriptor. I guess that reduces to the same "since the last
poll" problem.
I don't think slow NFS links is an issue.
-- Jamie
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