From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:50:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:50:41 -0500 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:17927 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:50:28 -0500 Message-ID: <3A8949B5.6BEDA269@colorfullife.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:50:29 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "N. Jason Kleinbub" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Selects on dirs/files. In-Reply-To: <3A894282.5070909@navtechinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "N. Jason Kleinbub" wrote: > > People, > > Not sure where to go from here but .... > > ( Yes I have read the FAQ ) > > For practical reasons, I have created some modification to the > Linux kernel. These changes were to make our implementation of > software more convenient (elegant). Essentially, I have modified the > select() calls to allow the non-trivial use of directories as an 'fd'. > Have you checked the F_NOTIFY fcntl()? If yes, what's the difference between your patch and F_NOTIFY? -- Manfred