From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 9 18:08:12 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA24883 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:08:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mira.net.au (eplet.mira.net.au [203.9.190.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA24850 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28749 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1996 02:07:56 -0000 Received: from melb.werple.net.au (203.9.190.18) by eplet.mira.net.au with SMTP; 10 Dec 1996 02:07:56 -0000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.6/8.7.3/2) with UUCP id MAA25091; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:56:55 +1100 (EST) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11100; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:36:44 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199612100136.MAA11100@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: poll(2) To: jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:36:43 +1100 (EST) Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, jb@cimlogic.com.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612100109.RAA04353@Pescadero.DSG.Stanford.EDU> from Jonathan Stone at "Dec 9, 96 05:09:57 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Stone wrote: > Re naming, npoll() is more consistent with the sleep()/usleep() usage. > Does POSIX have anything to say here? nanopoll() is more consistent with the sleep()/nanosleep() usage which are defined in POSIX 1003.1b. usleep() is not POSIX AFAIK. -- 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