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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:55:01 -0400
To: weigelt@metux.de, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] inotify / waiting for events on 9p
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> 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