From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 9 13:23:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA01362 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mira.net.au (eplet.mira.net.au [203.9.190.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA01355 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:23:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10833 invoked from network); 9 Dec 1996 21:22:50 -0000 Received: from melb.werple.net.au (203.9.190.18) by eplet.mira.net.au with SMTP; 9 Dec 1996 21:22:50 -0000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.6/8.7.3/2) with UUCP id IAA04223 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:15:06 +1100 (EST) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA10527 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:18:04 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199612092118.IAA10527@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: poll(2) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:18:03 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk G'day, 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? -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137