Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:14:48 +0100 (BST)

> 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

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