"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My question is, why do you want to propose this technique for reading > a *single* event.? It could be useful in multithreaded/multiprocess apps that rely on an inotify descriptor to distribute work to a thread pool. accept() and mq_receive() users do it all the time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html