kqueue, NOTE_EOF

marius aamodt eriksen marius at monkey.org
Wed Nov 12 11:06:40 PST 2003


* Jason Thorpe <thorpej at wasabisystems.com> [031112 14:00]:

> On Nov 12, 2003, at 10:57 AM, marius aamodt eriksen wrote:
> 
> >right - the idea was to preserve existing semantics, while leaving the
> >poll-like semantics optional.
> 
> I'm not sure the "existing semantics" are anything more than a bug that 
> should be fixed.

this behavior is useful in, for example,

   "tail -f"

marius.

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