Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:10:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status |
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Robert Love wrote:
> > I was told that Linux cannot do this. It always returns the filehandles as > > ready for disk files. > > Inotify would definitely work.
Well we could use it in kernel to make select() work correctly. For disk files set up a notification for write and then only return from select if new data is available.
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