Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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 :-)

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