select.select() on Regular Files?

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <a73boo$fa$2 at news.idiom.com>, jimd at vega.starshine.org (Jim
Dennis) writes:

|  I guess the newer versions of FreeBSD are ahead of Linux in this
|  category.  Hopefully Ben LaHaise' AIO work will get merged in soon
|  and in a few years we can relegate "while (1) { nanosleep(); stat(); }"
|  to the history books.
 
for linux (and irix), have a look in
<URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html>.

  -- erno