From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:04:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:04:43 -0400 Received: from elektra.higherplane.net ([203.37.52.137]:50353 "EHLO elektra.higherplane.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:04:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:21:30 +1000 From: john slee To: Michael Rothwell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) Message-ID: <20010620202130.H30872@higherplane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010619200442.E30785@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: [ ... ] > I asked Linus for this a long time ago and he pointed out that you couldn't > make it work over NFS, at least not nicely. It does seem like that could > be worked around by having a "poll daemon" which knew about all the things > being waited on and checked them. Or something. could sgi's imon+fam work help a little here (with the "poll daemon" part)? am i on the wrong train ? :-] not sure how maintained it is these days... [ ... ] j. -- "Bobby, jiggle Grandpa's rat so it looks alive, please" -- gary larson