Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: The lack of poll()
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I am actually in the middle of writing the network code for APR on
Windows.  Windows also does not have poll, which is why I am responding to
this message.  I have an ap_poll implementation using select already
written.  When I finish the code on Windows, I will move the function over
to Unix and #ifdef it.  When Apache-2.0 is synch'ed for the last time, and
we can put apr under it, this problem goes away.

Any problem with that solution?

Ryan

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Ben Laurie wrote:

> So, I've _finally_ found the time to start looking at Apache 2.0. But, I
> fall at the first hurdle. FreeBSD 2.2.8, my development platform of
> circumstance, if not choice (probably, given a free hand, that would be
> FreeBSD 3.2), doesn't support poll().
> 
> >From what I've seen so far, I can easily work around that with select(),
> but how do we want to play this, really?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben.
> 
> --
> http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
> 
> "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
> who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
> first group; there was less competition there."
>      - Indira Gandhi
> 

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