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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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