Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:56:42 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Just to avoid duplicated effort:  I currently have work in progress
> on a "fslog" pseudo-device.  It enables you to monitor a filesystem
> and receive notifications for all interesting changes to files and
> directories.

However, this is not necessarily duplicative of making polling on
files work.  For one thing, it's unlikely that we will want to require
fslog be universally configured just to make `tail -f' and `biff' work.

-GAWollman

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