From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: weigelt@metux.de,
"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] inotify / waiting for events on 9p
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:57:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10709170757s54ccec8ak424c77933aa08ee9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917145119.GB26536@nibiru.local>
On 9/17/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> The question is: how long can that operation sleep ?
> Is there any timeout ?
totally depends on what's at the other end. Also, it can always return
with no event having happened -- think "remote system died".
So, in general, plan for a failure.
ron
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 14:51 Enrico Weigelt
2007-09-17 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-17 14:57 ` ron minnich [this message]
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