Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:12:44 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Async disk i/o in Linux |
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ramon Garcia Fernandez wrote: > Or it supports select with them?
Linux always (for as long as select(2) existed?) supported select(2) on regular files. But why would you use it? select(2) on regular files is absolutely useless and uninteresting (imagine a person who always says "YES!" to any question you ask).
The reason why they are uninteresting is from Single UNIX v2 spec that dictates:
File descriptors associated with regular files always select true for ready to read, ready to write, and error conditions.
Regards, Tigran
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