On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:00:49PM -0500, David Cuthbert wrote:
> Admittedly, my experience is dated and refers to implementing servers on 
> Solaris.  The man page for select(3c) on Solaris explicitly states:
> 
> "The poll(2) function is preferred over this function.  It must be used 
> when the number of descriptors exceeds FD_SETSIZE."

IIRC, in Solaris select() isn't a system call, but a library call
emulated in userland on top of poll(2). 
(I could be wrong, I never really used Solaris ).

Regards
Adi

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