Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:02:38 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. Message-ID: <3987.937584158@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:53:10 PDT." <XFMail.990917085310.jdp@polstra.com>
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In message <XFMail.990917085310.jdp@polstra.com>, 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
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