console polling loop and inotify

[Ivan Krstić]

William Cohen wrote:
> Why poll? Doesn't python have access to inotify? It seems like something
> like that would be useful in a number of places to avoid having
> processes wake up, check that nothing has changed, and then go back to
> sleep.

Python can't hard-depend on inotify since it builds on many non-Linux
platforms; using it if it's available could be a possibility, if it
doesn't make the code ugly. Neal would know more.

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