poll (Unix)
poll is a POSIX system call to wait for one or more file descriptors to become ready for use.[1]
On *BSD and macOS, it has been largely superseded by kqueue in high performance applications.[2] On Linux, it has been superseded by ppoll and epoll.[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Charles M. Hannum; The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. (1998). "poll, pollts — synchronous I/O multiplexing". BSD Cross Reference. NetBSD.
- ^ a b "Connection processing methods". nginx.org.
External links[]
- The Single UNIX Specification, Issue 7 from The Open Group – System Interfaces Reference,
- man-pages for
poll(2)
in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD
Categories:
- C POSIX library
- Events (computing)
- System calls
- Unix
- Computer programming stubs