Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:28:17 -0700 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@plexuscom.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poll(2) Message-ID: <32ACA091.2EFB@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <199612092305.SAA01955@chai.plexuscom.com>
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Bakul Shah wrote: > [about the advantages of poll] Nice though it is, it's a terrible name for a system call. You use it to avoid polling ... and yet it's called "poll". (Of course, the reminder of SysV doesn't help much either. :-) -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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