I want to read the file descriptor returned by libpcap to know when I
should read the live capture dump


On 22 April 2013 21:20, Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]> wrote:

> File watchers use is specific routines at the back such as inotify, kqueue
> or fsevent. That said this is not the same as what UV_poll_t does. The
> former is for watching higher level changes to files, that is be notified
> when the file changes, the latter is for I/O readiness.
>
> What is your use case for adding FD based fswatch?
>
> Nikhil
>  On Apr 22, 2013 9:06 PM, "Ujjwal Thaakar" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> When there is stat, there is fstat so I see it only reasonable that there
>> should be a FWatch support at the js level and then Watch can be a special
>> case of this. Watch does the same thing I guess at the backend using
>> UV_poll_t so why not give direct support to watching fds. What do you think?
>>
>>
>> On 22 April 2013 20:49, Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Fds can refer to non files so there doesn't seem to be js level support.
>>> You'll want to use UV_poll_t
>>> https://github.com/search?q=uv_poll_t+repo%3AJoyent%2Fnode&ref=searchresults&type=Code
>>>
>>> Nikhil
>>>  On Apr 22, 2013 12:16 AM, "Ujjwal Thaakar" <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there any provision like fs.Watch but for file descriptors?
>>>>
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