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SubjectRe: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status
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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