From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 9: 3:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2363B15504 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA03989; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:02:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Polstra Cc: John-Mark Gurney , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:53:10 PDT." Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:02:38 +0200 Message-ID: <3987.937584158@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , John Polstra writes: >> ugh, why aren't you extending poll to work on files and directories to >> get this info?? it would make MUCH more sense to extend poll to do this.. >> >> any specific reason why it wasn't done this way? > >Yes. Last time I checked, our CVS repository contained 50,000 files >in 13,000 directories. Somehow the thought of a 63,000-element pollfd >array leaves me cold. Sounds like something Bruce would do :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message