On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Chuck Robey wrote:
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Pieter de Goeje wrote:
I think poll(2) is also simpler than select for this purpose.
It does look like that, I need to check the implementation a bit, because the
name of this thing makes me really suspicious about how often it checks for an
fd for being ready for a read. I know select comes right back, I was under the
impression that poll didn't use signals to do this.
AFAIK the effects are identical, just the arguments are set up in a
different way. Both of them will block until the fd is ready and then
return "immediately" (subject to other processes running of course). The
name "poll" is a misnomer because it doesn't actually work by polling,
but you can pretend that it does (and does so "infinitely often").
Neither one uses signals per se, though if the underlying hardware device
is interrupt-driven, that will be what (indirectly) triggers the wake-up.
poll does seem to be more convenient than messing about with fd_set's.
select is older and so it comes to my mind first, that's all.
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Nate Eldredge
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