select.select() on Regular Files?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <a678ud$30dv$1 at news.idiom.com>, Jim Dennis wrote:

>  O.K. so what can I do for asynchronous I/O notification on
>  regular files?  How can I efficiently block and wake up when
>  I/O is available on any of my file descriptors?  
> 
>  Don't tell me I have to go into a sleep and poll stat() or
>  seek() loop!  It's hard to imagine that UNIX got this far
>  without offering a better solution than that!

It's hard to imagine that people use MS Windows, but I have it
on good authority that many do!

I don't suppose you could use pipes or ptys?  They both do what
you want...

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