select.select() on Regular Files?

[Michael Hudson]

jimd at vega.starshine.org (Jim Dennis) writes:

>  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!

OK, I won't tell you that.

Cheers,
M.

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