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On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 03:06:35PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > The last time this came up, someone reported that SGI has an API for > it in Irix. Does anyone remember? It would be good to follow SGI so > that more Irix applications run on Linux. > IIRC, IRIX uses a pipe similar to what hpa suggested. _However_, the documentation spells out clearly that the interface is not to be trusted and that they reserve the right to change to a better interface in the future. (Seems like they know that their current scheme was a fast solution to get their desktop up and running). Actually, if you want to have notification of a state-change of a file under IRIX you don't use the kernel, but the fam(?) daemon which encapsulates the kernel interface. So I don't think compatibility with IRIX is very important in this case. astor -- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html | ||||||||||||
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