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From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: Re: poll() system call for FreeBSD 2.0.5 - anyone ?
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 01:14:53 GMT
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Ward D. Britton (wardb@xplus.com.AU) wrote:
: 
: Is there an implementation of the poll() system call for FreeBSD 2.0.5 ?
: ie. a wrapper or device driver/api ?
: 
: 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.

Check out 'pol' from comp.sources.misc.  It has a wrapper for select
that goes around pol.  Should not be too hard to do the reverse. (Try
ftp.uu.net for sources.)
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