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Date:      Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:40:03 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: poll(2) 
Message-ID:  <199612092340.PAA06159@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:18:03 %2B1100." <199612092118.IAA10527@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> 

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>There are a few things that NetBSD has added recently that belong (IMHO)
>in FreeBSD too. One of them is poll(2), which gives an alternative to
>select(2) that does not suffer from the FD_SETSIZE "feature".
>
>Anyone planning to add this?

   We've been talking about it. BTW, select() in FreeBSD should no longer have
the size limit.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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