Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: can/should inotify support fcntl? | Date | Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:13:19 +0200 |
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Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm trying to wrap inotify functionality for python. I ran into a problem. > In order to use python's select on the fd, I need to use python's > os.fdopen. It seems os.fdopen calls: > > fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) > > Looks like inotify doesn't support calling fcntl. Should it?
F_GETFL is implemented in the VFS, and it can only fail if the fd does not denote a valid file handle.
Andreas.
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