Re: Waiting on Sockets or File Descriptors

3 Feb 2005


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On 02 February 2005 19:48, Peter Simons wrote:
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Wolfgang Thaller writes:
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a) poll() is not supported on Mac OS X and (at least some
popular versions of) BSD.
Are you certain? Just tried "man poll" on one of the MacOS X
machines the SourceForge compile farm offers, and that one
had it: "Darwin ppc-osx1 5.5 Darwin Kernel Version 5.5".
"man poll" returns "No manual entry for poll" on my MacOS X 10.3.7
machine, Darwin 7.7.0.  Nevertheless,  exists, as a
redirection to , which describes itself as:

    poll - select(2)-based poll() emulation function for BSD systems.

    int poll (struct pollfd *pArray, unsigned long n_fds, int timeout)

Regards,
    Malcolm

Re: Waiting on Sockets or File Descriptors

Malcolm Wallace