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

Geoff Clare <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 17/08/2026 13:44, Geoff Clare wrote:
>> 
>> 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

Well, the context is computing and https://foldoc.org/poll says:

poll
To check the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to
see if a particular external event has been registered.

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Geoff Clare <[email protected]>
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