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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()?