Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 08:12:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forgiving select() call. Message-ID: <199605280612.IAA03466@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605280125.VAA17242@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at "May 27, 96 09:25:48 pm"
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(Religious topic, thus moved to chat.) As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > And, FWIW, SVR4 select(3) is implemented using poll(2), so select on > SVR4, in and of itself, isn't going to have any better granularity > than poll. Only very few systems actually implement it as a library function (and that's perhaps one of the reasons [along with STREAMS] for the sluggishness of their IP functionality). All the serious ones implement it as a system call, too. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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