FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

I added src/replacements/fakepoll.c tonight.  Quite a bit cleaner than
what I found on the 'Net, if I do say so myself, but the guts are the
same.  You can learn a lot about poll/select by working on a function that
does one in terms of the other.  

Currently it's named "fakepoll()" because when I named it "poll()", it
supplanted poll(2) on my machine.  (Quite helpful for debugging it, btw!) 
Clearly there's a little autoconf work ahead.  (Freddy, if you know how to
make fakepoll be used only when there's no poll(2), I'd be grateful if
you'd show me.  I didn't want to add the whole contents of fakepoll.h to
replacements.h.) 

Always having poll/fakepoll around will mean we can drop #if USE_POLL from
the code, as well as all references to select(2).  Probably we should
rename tds_select to tds_poll at the same time....

--jkl