Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

Zan Lynx
2005-06-21T20:10:08Z

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On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:38 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:22 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > I noticed that select() is not working on real files. Could inotify
> > be used to fix select()?
>
> Select the system call? It should work fine. ;-)
>
> Who is confused?
>
> Robert Love

Sounds interesting. tail -f could use it. Instead of sleep 1, seek to
current position, read to eof; just select() for read on the file and
sleep in select() until someone else writes to that file.

I've never tried doing that. It might work, for all I know.
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Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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