Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:24:06 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Once again |
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Dale Amon writes: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > W.r.t. poll(), a good point. One bit of state needs to be maintained > > per file descriptor. I guess that reduces to the same "since the last > > poll" problem. > > > Yes. > > > I don't think slow NFS links is an issue. > > Only in the sense that if there were just one serial number, > different browsers would not be in sync (which probably isn't > important unless they had to communicate, for which I can't > think of a good reason). And if there are many fd's on > many hosts, how do they get their Modified and Serial > numbers synced to the remote NFS files?
I don't see why these serial numbers are useful. With my VFS poll patch, you can be informed when an inode is written to since the last poll(). Doesn't that take care of everything?
Regards,
Richard....
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