Re: Manipulating C code at the AST level, in C
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:53:21 +0100, Geoff Clare wrote: > Nuno Silva wrote: > >> The online manual here (a GNU/Linux system) says: >> >> "poll, ppoll - wait for some event on a file descriptor" >> >> Perhaps that should be rewritten. Reading further, it's not >> singular, but that description with "*A* file descriptor" does make >> it sound like poll is not a suitable replacement for select. Oh, it most certainly is. And then some. > The POSIX/SUS poll() page has: > > "poll, ppoll - input/output multiplexing" > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/poll.html That is the official reference. But perhaps slightly more readable, and with examples: <https://manpages.debian.org/poll(2)>.