[erlang-questions] erlang and sysfs_notify limitations

[Max Lapshin]

Linux kernel has sysfs_notify mechanism.

This mechanism allow to switch from periodical reading (polling) /sys files
to blocking epoll call.

userlevel application can open required /sys file and start waiting for
events with blocking "poll" call.

Kernel driver will call sysfs_notify when something changes and user
application will be able to read new data.

As far as I have understood, erlang right now cannot use this approach
because this non-standard approach requires polling on regular files.

I have made an illustration for this problem:
https://github.com/maxlapshin/erl_notify

Without adding it we cannot read gpio, temperature or mdraid events with
new way.

Is it possible to add this way of polling local files (non-sockets) to
erlang?
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