From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 13:52:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E923D37B404 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:52:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net (smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A294A43FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 20958 invoked by uid 50005); 13 Mar 2003 21:19:23 -0000 Received: from tms2@mail.ptd.net by smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net by uid 50002 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4251. spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 0.825352 secs); 13 Mar 2003 21:19:23 -0000 Received: from du211002.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.211.2]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Mar 2003 21:19:22 -0000 Message-ID: <3E70FD71.6C5F2BC9@mail.ptd.net> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:51:45 -0500 From: "T.M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Enache Adrian Cc: David Cuthbert , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: first parameter to select References: <3E702BCC.3030208@kanga.org> <20030313083710.GA8225@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <3E70D561.1080001@kanga.org> <20030313194850.GA899@ratsnest.hole> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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