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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can/should inotify support fcntl?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:13:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jepsprxab4.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <djqmvc$64g$1@sea.gmane.org> (Neal Becker's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:07:41 -0400")

Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to wrap inotify functionality for python.  I ran into a problem. 
> In order to use python's select on the fd, I need to use python's
> os.fdopen.  It seems os.fdopen calls:
>
> fcntl(4, F_GETFL)                       = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
>
> Looks like inotify doesn't support calling fcntl.  Should it?

F_GETFL is implemented in the VFS, and it can only fail if the fd does not
denote a valid file handle.

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-27 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-27 14:07 can/should inotify support fcntl? Neal Becker
2005-10-27 15:13 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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