I don't think we should encourage or even mention the possibility of the use of poll(2) to effect millisecond timeouts. Even if the standard library lacks such an interface.
I'm pretty sure you can't use this hack portably, either. But mostly I just think it's a misuse of the interface and potentially confusing to a reader of such code: ok? -- Scott Cheloha Index: lib/libc/sys/poll.2 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2,v retrieving revision 1.35 diff -u -p -r1.35 poll.2 --- lib/libc/sys/poll.2 14 Feb 2017 17:51:14 -0000 1.35 +++ lib/libc/sys/poll.2 17 Aug 2018 14:55:48 -0000 @@ -183,12 +183,6 @@ and flags may be used to detect when out-of-band socket data may be read without blocking. .Pp -In addition to I/O multiplexing, -.Fn poll -can be used to generate simple timeouts. -This functionality may be achieved by passing a null pointer for -.Fa fds . -.Pp The .Fn ppoll function is similar to
