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

john slee
2001-06-20T10:04:53Z

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:

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> 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...

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j.

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