Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:40:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poll(2) Message-ID: <199612092240.PAA02008@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612092118.IAA10527@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Dec 10, 96 08:18:03 am
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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? It's relatively trivial to build a poll() using select() (ie: library wrapper). If someone decides to add poll, note: the tiemout is only good to 1ms theoretical (argument resolution) or 10ms actual (system clock update frequency), so it isn't suitable for doing a lot of things that select() *is* suitable for doing... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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