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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: poll() system call for FreeBSD 2.0.5 - anyone ?
Date: 28 Oct 1995 01:52:31 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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wardb@xplus.com.AU (Ward D. Britton) wrote:
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] Is there an implementation of the poll() system call for FreeBSD 2.0.5 ?
] ie. a wrapper or device driver/api ?
No, but it did come up in a discussion of the drawbacks of select(2)
and the default bit vector size.
] We have an application that comes from SYSV/Sco land and makes use of poll
] quite havily.
] Before we start to replace it with select(), I thought that it may be prudent
] to ask.
Writing a poll(3) wrapper for select(2) would be rather trivial.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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