Re: poll (3) (WAS select (3))

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: > sub poll(CArray[Pollfd], uint64, uint32) returns int32 is native { * } This, unfortunately, means an array of pointers to Pollfd structs, not an array of Pollfd structs. NativeCall doesn't support the latter currently,

poll (3) (WAS select (3))

Den 30-04-2016 kl. 19:14 skrev Kaare Rasmussen: select(3) is an abysmal API. There's a reason most OSes replaced select(2) with a backward compatibility select(3) and moved on to something poll-like (look for poll(2) or epoll(2)). Well, it's not that I fare better with poll. This