Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:51:45 -0500 From: "T.M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro> Cc: David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: first parameter to select Message-ID: <3E70FD71.6C5F2BC9@mail.ptd.net> References: <3E702BCC.3030208@kanga.org> <20030313083710.GA8225@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <3E70D561.1080001@kanga.org> <20030313194850.GA899@ratsnest.hole>
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Enache Adrian wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:00:49PM -0500, David Cuthbert wrote: > > Admittedly, my experience is dated and refers to implementing servers on > > Solaris. The man page for select(3c) on Solaris explicitly states: > > > > "The poll(2) function is preferred over this function. It must be used > > when the number of descriptors exceeds FD_SETSIZE." > > IIRC, in Solaris select() isn't a system call, but a library call > emulated in userland on top of poll(2). That is correct (I just checked). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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