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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: poll(2)
To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:40:03 -0700 (MST)
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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
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