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Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status
From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
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On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:38 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:22 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>=20
> > I noticed that select() is not working on real files. Could inotify=20
> > be used to fix select()?
>=20
> Select the system call?  It should work fine.   ;-)
>=20
> Who is confused?
>=20
> 	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. =20

I've never tried doing that.  It might work, for all I know.
--=20
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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