Re: [prepatch] Directory Notification

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:27:29PM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:
> > 
> > It delivers a realtime signal to tasks which have requested it.  The task
> > can then call fstat to find out what changed.
> > 
> A poll() notification mechanism should be at least as useful for e.g.
> GUI's who generally prefer to have synchronous notification.

Check "sigtimedwait()".  You can use rtsignals to provide synchronous
notification if you want.  It's hard to use poll() to provide async
notification, however.

--Stephen