Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

Jeff Garzik
2005-06-21T23:22:04Z

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 <something> that facilitates listening to <something> 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