From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262364AbVFUVA2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:00:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262350AbVFUU61 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:58:27 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([209.128.68.125]:54247 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262330AbVFUUwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:52:25 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:52:13 -0700 Organization: Open Source Development Lab Message-ID: <20050621135213.6af4b543@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> <42B831B4.9020603@pobox.com> <1119368364.3949.236.camel@betsy> <1119382685.3949.263.camel@betsy> <1119384131.15478.25.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: build.pdx.osdl.net 1119387133 6642 10.8.0.74 (21 Jun 2005 20:52:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@osdl.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:52:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:02:09 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: > 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. > -- > Zan Lynx Posix requires select() of regular files always return true: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html File descriptors associated with regular files shall always select true for ready to read, ready to write, and error conditions. -- Stephen Hemminger