From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 9 15:26:42 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA09664 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:26:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA09656 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:26:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov (daemon@cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.101]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA21936; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:26:33 GMT Received: from auk.fsl.noaa.gov by cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA009343992; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:26:32 GMT Message-Id: <32ACA091.2EFB@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:28:17 -0700 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.10 9000/725) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Bakul Shah Cc: John Birrell , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poll(2) References: <199612092305.SAA01955@chai.plexuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/