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From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
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Bill Studenmund wrote:
> I think the difference is in the default behavior. When you're at EOF, I 
> know that poll() will give you a read-availability event, so you'll read 
> the EOF. Will kqueue?

AFAIK yes for sockets, not for file descriptor (i.e. descriptor
open to a file on filesystem). Would poll() give you read-availability
event when on end of file on filesystem.

Jaromir
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