On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 02:33:48 +0000, David Holland wrote: > anything other than the same set of vague descriptions we had in the > older poll(2).
poll(2) is ... ok, I'm not even sure what adjective to use here. I had to write some async TCP poll code that needed to work on Linux, Solaris and MacOS, and I also tested it on NetBSD - the behavior was fairly noticably different (half-close was half the fun). Yet all behaviors were conforming to what the vaguue descriptions in (various) poll(2) manpages said. -uwe