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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 08:12:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Forgiving select() call.
Message-ID:  <199605280612.IAA03466@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605280125.VAA17242@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at "May 27, 96 09:25:48 pm"

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(Religious topic, thus moved to chat.)

As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:

> And, FWIW, SVR4 select(3) is implemented using poll(2), so select on
> SVR4, in and of itself, isn't going to have any better granularity
> than poll.

Only very few systems actually implement it as a library function (and
that's perhaps one of the reasons [along with STREAMS] for the
sluggishness of their IP functionality).  All the serious ones
implement it as a system call, too.

-- 
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. ;-)



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