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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell),
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Subject: Re: poll(2) 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:20:42 -0800
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On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:04:22 -0800 
 Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:

 > I'd like to see a upoll(2), as well... an extension, that gives the
 > funtionality of poll, but takes a more reasonable timeout (like,
 > probably a struct timespec).

Of course, I meant nanopoll(2) for timespec, or upoll(2) for timeval.

*duh*

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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