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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:57:49 -0700
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
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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