From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 27 23:22:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04473 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 23:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA04454 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 23:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA10419; Tue, 28 May 1996 08:22:25 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA08561; Tue, 28 May 1996 08:22:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA03466; Tue, 28 May 1996 08:12:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605280612.IAA03466@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Forgiving select() call. To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 08:12:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605280125.VAA17242@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at "May 27, 96 09:25:48 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (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. ;-)