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Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)
To: rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us (Michael Rothwell)
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> Oh, how I would love for select() and poll() to work on files... or for
> any other working AIO mothods to be present.
> What would get broken if things were changed to let select() work for
> filesystem fds?

It does. They are always readable. If it were to trigger prefetching in that
case then I suspect no harm would occur