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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.
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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:56:42 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> 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.

Yes, I agree.  I just thought things might migrate in that direction
and wanted to avoid wasted work.

John


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