Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

[Jeff Garzik]

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



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