From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 2 23:58:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA05231 for current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 23:58:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA05226 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 23:58:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA18521 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:58:33 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28170; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:50:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970403095026.AM16414@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:50:26 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POLL & the Single FreeBSD'r References: <199704030142.BAA04433@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704030142.BAA04433@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen Hocking on Apr 3, 1997 11:42:54 +1000 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stephen Hocking wrote: > I note that NetBSD has had the poll system call for some time. Are > there any plans to integrate one of the few nice SYSV'isms into > FreeBSD (it would make porting some code a snap). At least, it hasn't been diminished to be a bad idea. -- 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. ;-)