Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:14:48 +0100 (BST) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Oh, how I would love for select() and poll() to work on files... or for > any other working AIO mothods to be present. > What would get broken if things were changed to let select() work for > filesystem fds?
It does. They are always readable. If it were to trigger prefetching in that case then I suspect no harm would occur
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