On Tue, 10 May 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
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> Experiment, sadly, disagrees with you.
I've just remembered about Richard Kettlewell's thorough survey of poll()
implementations with specific attention to this problem:
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/06/poll.html
His conclusion is the same as yours: that this isn't possible to do
portably, or at all in many cases.
Tony.
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