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To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
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Subject: Re: poll(2) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:18:03 +1100."
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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 21:42:22 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> There are a few things that NetBSD has added recently that belong (IMHO)
> in FreeBSD too. One of them is poll(2), which gives an alternative to
> select(2) that does not suffer from the FD_SETSIZE "feature".
> 
> Anyone planning to add this?

If you get no answer to this, trying a second time with a PR
containing unidiffs might just be what it takes to get it in. :-)

Failing that, if you are going to make a habit of looking through both
code bases, commit privileges to FreeBSD might be an even more
effective solution if you're into it.

						Jordan