Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:41:40 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: terry@lambert.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poll(2) Message-ID: <199612092341.KAA10842@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199612092304.PAA11079@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "Dec 9, 96 03:04:22 pm"
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Jason Thorpe wrote: > ...indeed. I did that once (in 1994), so that I could compile some > SVR4 sources under NetBSD/hp300. However, doing that limits poll() > to select()'s functionality. I was just replacing code in the thread kernel that used select to use poll as the hidden syscall. > 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). npoll(2) for timespec? Or nanopoll(2) like nanosleep? I prefer poll_nsec(2), though. 8-) > > Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Regards, -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137
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