Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

Alan Cox
2001-06-20T09:15:56Z

> Oh, how I would love for select() and poll() to work on files... or for
> any other working AIO mothods to be present.
> What would get broken if things were changed to let select() work for
> filesystem fds?

It does. They are always readable. If it were to trigger prefetching in that
case then I suspect no harm would occur