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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: About reading events from /dev/autofs
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:53:51 +0800
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To: Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>
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On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:44 +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> earlier I've written a testprog to read /dev/autofs. It did not work:
> 
> http://linux.kernel.org/pipermail/autofs/2010-March/006071.html
> 
> Is there a way to watch /dev/autofs (with select or epoll) from within my C
> program?

No, it's a control device only.

Ian