Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

Alan Cox
2005-06-21T23:02:41Z

On Maw, 2005-06-21 at 21:06, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Zan Lynx wrote:
>
> > I've never tried doing that. It might work, for all I know.
>
> I was told that Linux cannot do this. It always returns the filehandles as
> ready for disk files.

That is because disk files are always ready - select/poll are for waits
for data (or space) to become available not for events in the sense of
inotify.
That said there *is* scope in the poll() API [but not select()] to add a
new kind of poll notification type.