From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262475AbVFUXWE (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:22:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262474AbVFUWti (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:49:38 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:42921 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262442AbVFUWpl (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:45:41 -0400 Message-ID: <42B8987F.9000607@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:45:19 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Robert Love , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> <42B831B4.9020603@pobox.com> <1119368364.3949.236.camel@betsy> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Robert Love wrote: > > >>>We should ask hpa what he needs for kernel.org. Ideally kernel.org >>>probably wants that facilitates listening to for >>>a list of files being changed. That would greatly speed up the robots, >>>and possibly rsync-like activities too. >> >>I've talked to some people who've hooked inotify into rsync >>successfully. Cool hack. > > > I noticed that select() is not working on real files. Could inotify > be used to fix select()? Non-blocking file I/O is an open issue. AIO is probably a better path. Jeff