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FromStephen Hemminger <>
SubjectRe: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status
DateTue, 21 Jun 2005 13:52:13 -0700
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:02:09 -0600
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:38 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:22 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > 
> > > I noticed that select() is not working on real files. Could inotify 
> > > be used to fix select()?
> > 
> > Select the system call?  It should work fine.   ;-)
> > 
> > Who is confused?
> > 
> > 	Robert Love
> 
> Sounds interesting.  tail -f could use it.  Instead of sleep 1, seek to
> current position, read to eof; just select() for read on the file and
> sleep in select() until someone else writes to that file.  
> 
> I've never tried doing that.  It might work, for all I know.
> -- 
> Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>


Posix requires select() of regular files always return true:
	http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html

	File descriptors associated with regular files shall always select true for ready to read, 
	ready to write, and error conditions.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger	<shemminger@osdl.org>
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