From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: weigelt@metux.de, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] inotify / waiting for events on 9p
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:55:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c32113002ff2377c250652e76cd38b6f@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917145119.GB26536@nibiru.local>
> I'm currently thinking about event notifications via 9p.
> An simple way would be just reading from some file, and this
> read operation will sleep until some event occours.
>
> The question is: how long can that operation sleep ?
> Is there any timeout ?
neither 9p nor the plan 9 kernel nor unix system calls have read timeouts.
particular filesystems like nfs might.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 14:55 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 [this message]
2007-09-17 14:57 ` ron minnich
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