Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VFS/fcntl() feature [PATCH] | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:35:12 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19980828170216.A13729@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier write s: +----- | Alan Cox wrote: | > This was actually discussed at Linux Expo and before (many times), the | > favoured idea has been to allow select() on a directory to have those | > semantics. It also means "top" can select on /proc ;) | Sure, but how does select() notify the process when a file is modified? | Note I said modified, not extended. +--->8
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.
(IOW, there's no reason we can't have it mean "any modification" instead of merely "append".)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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