Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 18:41:37 -0500 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@plexuscom.com> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poll(2) Message-ID: <199612092341.SAA02068@chai.plexuscom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:28:17 MST." <32ACA091.2EFB@fsl.noaa.gov>
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> 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. :-) Well, your program _is_ polling; it is polling a whole bunch of file descriptors all at once! It is avoiding busy-waiting (a strange phrase) but that is just an implementation detail! And yes, please do not remind us of sysV :-)
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