Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:30:11 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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Hi!
> > So you consider inability to select() on regular files _feature_? > > select on files is unimplementable. You can't do background file IO the > same way you do background receiving of packets on socket. Filesystem is > synchronous. It can block.
You can use helper friends if VFS layer is not able to handle background IO. Then we can do it right in linux-4.4. Pavel
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