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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:48:50 +0200
From:      Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>
To:        David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: first parameter to select
Message-ID:  <20030313194850.GA899@ratsnest.hole>
In-Reply-To: <3E70D561.1080001@kanga.org>
References:  <3E702BCC.3030208@kanga.org> <20030313083710.GA8225@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <3E70D561.1080001@kanga.org>

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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). 
(I could be wrong, I never really used Solaris ).

Regards
Adi

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