POLL in different OSes

[Gerhard Häring]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:51:02PM -0300, Lucio Torre wrote:
>  From the documentation:
> 
> "The poll() system call, supported on most Unix systems"
> 
> and my questions:
> 
> a) is poll supported on Windows?
> 
> my guess is no, but i hoping for a yes.

It isn't. Unless, you're using Cygwin. Also, select only works with
sockets on Windows.

Wouldn't it be possible to emulate poll() with select()? I'd be glad to
see a patch appear at Sourceforge if that's possible :-)

Gerhard
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