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From: David <david@kdbarto.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] V6 networking & alarm syscall
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:06:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F39634C0-3D88-4FCE-86F3-B8309FDA0FBF@kdbarto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2Ni4jvA9POZKaQx6O_Dq=Nq5TfdLgbr__oWgrXme=+GHg@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Jan 11, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> FWIW: a few years later, System V (I think SRV3, but I've forgotten) introduced poll(2) as a reaction to BSD's select(2).   [IMO: That was NIH if I ever saw it - similar but different because they could].
> 
> Clem
> ᐧ

I remember having to support software than was on both SVR4 and BSD and writing an API that would mask the difference between poll and select. I’ve seen it done many times sense.

	David


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-10 23:12 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-11  0:17 ` Clem cole
2019-01-11 15:33 ` ron
2019-01-11 18:45   ` Clem Cole
2019-01-11 19:06     ` David [this message]
2019-01-11 22:08     ` reed
2019-01-11 22:18       ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-12 12:04         ` reed
2019-01-12 17:20           ` Clem Cole
2019-01-12 18:16             ` Eric Allman
2019-01-13  1:16               ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
2019-01-11 22:47       ` Clem Cole
2019-01-11 22:55         ` Eric Allman
2019-01-11 23:32         ` Warner Losh
2019-01-11 23:27 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-12  1:24 Noel Chiappa
2019-01-12  1:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-12  2:33   ` Warner Losh
2019-01-12  4:14 Noel Chiappa
     [not found] <mailman.1.1547258402.6716.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-01-12 11:13 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-13 10:52 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-13 15:39 ` Warner Losh

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