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Re: [freetds] reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X

From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry AT mac.com>
To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [freetds] reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:05:22 -0600

On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:

On Jan 25, 4:35pm, jklowden AT freetds.org ("James K. Lowden") wrote:
-- Subject: [freetds] reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X

| http://lists.apple.com/archives/Unix-porting/2008/Nov/msg00059.html
|
| Thought this was interesting. Haven't been able to confirm.

It is correct. OS/X needs to fix its poll...

In the Perl sources there is a poll() emulation implemented in terms of select() if that's of interest to anybody:

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/ext/IO/poll.c

No doubt there are other home-grown implementations kicking around as well.

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[freetds] reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X, James K. Lowden, 01/25/2009
- Re: [freetds] reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X, Christos Zoulas, 01/27/2009
  - Re: [freetds] reportedly: poll(2) slow on OS X, Craig A. Berry, 01/29/2009