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DateTue, 21 Jun 2005 18:45:19 -0400
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Robert Love wrote:
> 
> 
>>>We should ask hpa what he needs for kernel.org.  Ideally kernel.org 
>>>probably wants <something> that facilitates listening to <something> for 
>>>a list of files being changed.  That would greatly speed up the robots, 
>>>and possibly rsync-like activities too.
>>
>>I've talked to some people who've hooked inotify into rsync
>>successfully.  Cool hack.
> 
> 
> I noticed that select() is not working on real files. Could inotify 
> be used to fix select()?

Non-blocking file I/O is an open issue.

AIO is probably a better path.

	Jeff



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