poll (Unix)
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poll is a POSIX system call to wait for one or more file descriptors to become ready for use.[1]
On the BSD descendants and macOS, it has been largely superseded by kqueue in high performance applications.[2] On Linux, it has been superseded by ppoll and epoll.[2]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
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References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- – System Interfaces Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group
- man-pages for
poll(2)in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD
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