>
> > 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.
>
Again, amen. If there is any precedent, though, we should not try to
pull an NIH <g>.
Steve
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