Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751046AbVJ0PNV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:13:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751052AbVJ0PNV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:13:21 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37067 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751043AbVJ0PNV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:13:21 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Neal Becker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: can/should inotify support fcntl? References: X-Yow: NOW, I'm supposed to SCRAMBLE two, and HOLD th' MAYO!! Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:13:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Neal Becker's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:07:41 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 25 Neal Becker writes: > I'm trying to wrap inotify functionality for python. I ran into a problem. > In order to use python's select on the fd, I need to use python's > os.fdopen. It seems os.fdopen calls: > > fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) > > Looks like inotify doesn't support calling fcntl. Should it? F_GETFL is implemented in the VFS, and it can only fail if the fd does not denote a valid file handle. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/