Re: Manipulating C code at the AST level, in C

On 17/08/2026 13:44, Geoff Clare wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 
>> poll() doesn’t poll, despite the name.
> 
> Yes it does, if you tell it to.
> 
> Quoting from the SUS at the previously-given URL:
> 
>      To effect a poll, the application shall ensure that the timeout
>      argument for poll() is 0, or for ppoll() is not a null pointer and
>      points to a zero-valued timespec structure.
> 
Poll means head you know. As in poll tax, Red poll cattle

I am very uncertain in this contex that it means what you think it means

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