Re: [Chicken-users] Pipe and thread problem

[Alan Post]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:32:35AM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 03:21:15AM -0400, Felix wrote:
> > > Anyone with a better understanding of Chicken's internals able to
> > > comment on which cases poll() is called and how the timeout value is
> > > selected?
> > 
> > poll(2) is not used in the runtime system.
> 
> I think some libcs might implement select() in terms of poll?
> In that case, poll is what you'd see in a syscall trace.
> 

That's correct, libpthread on (at least my) version of OpenBSD
implements select in terms of poll.

-Alan
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