On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 16:18 +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > We cannot check for a "return -ENOSYS" function at compile time, so if > the function exists we link to it and check for ENOSYS at run time, > and fall back to poll() in that case.
Right, but why not always use syscalls and never glibc? I think that is what Vincent was getting at. I think you did say that it was a general principle to always use libc when possible but I don't remember if you explained why. thanks -mike