Wishlist: non-callback interface

[telent]

I'd like to incorporate inotifiers into an application that has its own event loop based on Kernel.select. The #to_io method is great as far as it goes in that I can tell when new inotify events have been sent by the system, but to retrieve and parse them involves a dance with callbacks: I'd have to write a callback which saves them somewhere, call #process to call it, and then inspect the saved events when control returns from #process to my own code again.

It would be much cleaner if I could just call #get_events directly, but at present that seems to be an internal-use-only method. Would you consider making it or something very like it part of the official interface?