> guido wrote: > > Somehow I don't understand why we need poll() when we have select(), > > however. Select() is portable, poll() is Unix specific, but it seems > > to provide the same functionality. What am I missing? > > quoting from http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/ > > A major design problem with select(2) is that an fd_set is > usually of a fixed maximum size, on many operating systems > the kernel needs to rebuilt to raise this limit; even on those > that have dynamically adjustable limits, you still need to re- > compile your application (because FD_SETSIZE is a macro). OK. +1 from me. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)
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