Re: dev-tech-nspr Digest, Vol 39, Issue 8

On Jun 14, 2009, at 2:00 PM, [email protected]  
wrote:

> The specification for PR_Poll https://developer.mozilla.org/en/PR_Poll
> says that the fd member of the PRPollDesc structure "can be set to  
> NULL
> to indicate to PR_Poll that this PRFileDesc object should be ignored."
> This is exactly analogous to Unix's poll() function, whose pollfd  
> structure
> also has a member named fd.  According to the poll.html web page cited
> above, "If the value of fd is less than 0, events shall be ignored,  
> and
> revents shall be set to 0 in that entry on return from poll()."  So,  
> both
> poll() and PR_Poll() provide a way to "ignore" structures in the  
> array.

I somehow missed this on my first way through - thank you, I will do  
just that.

Andy Gocke