Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:36:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POLL & the Single FreeBSD'r Message-ID: <199704081836.OAA14015@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199704081808.CAA11077@spinner.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Apr 9, 97 02:08:36 am"
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> Oh, what a pleasant thought! :-) poll() a directory waiting for > something to put a file in there without having to wake up every so-many > seconds and stat the dir (as cron does). poll() a file to see time or > size changes, eg: do what tail -f does without having to sleep and re-read > every so often.. > > Hmm.. wasn't something like this in ITS? It's print spooler was > supposedly automatically woken when a file was placed in the queue > directory. The WIN32 API has this. I don't remember what it is. -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936
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