Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:48:18 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ramon Garcia Fernandez <> | Subject | Re: Async disk i/o in Linux |
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ramon Garcia Fernandez wrote: > The reason why they are uninteresting is from Single UNIX v2 spec that > dictates: > > File descriptors associated with regular files always select true > for ready to read, ready to write, and error conditions.
In that case I would be very pleased if Linux supported select with the same meaning for regular files as for terminals and sockets. Although it would be incompatible, I believe that there is no program relying on the behaviour of Unix select on regular files since it is not useful. And async i/o from the user side would be useful.
Ramon
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