Re: reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X

"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]>
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On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> On Jan 25,  4:35pm, [email protected] ("James K. Lowden") wrote:
> -- Subject: [freetds] reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X
>
> | http://lists.apple.com/archives/Unix-porting/2008/Nov/msg00059.html
> |
> | Thought this was interesting.  Haven't been able to confirm.
>
> It is correct. OS/X needs to fix its poll...

In the Perl sources there is a poll() emulation implemented in terms  
of select() if that's of interest to anybody:

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/ext/IO/poll.c

No doubt there are other home-grown implementations kicking around as  
well.


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