RE: Re: [ECOS] poll.h and polling stuff???

[tsmith at megaroms dot co dot uk]

Oh dear.. looks like I'm going to have to write poll myself then :(

I've too much source already using poll to change to select and I feel it would also be useful to others so it'll get contributed right back.

Thanks for the help.


>tsmith@megaroms.co.uk wrote:
>> 
>> does eCos support this stuff? when i've done the ecos build there is no sys/poll.h or poll.h. what options do i have to set or do i have to go direct through the kernel?
>> 
>> any help would be much appreciated
>
>But everything you want to do with it should be achievable with select() -
>at least in an embedded context where in general we're not talking about
>many thousands of file descriptors.
>
>Alternatively if you wanted to write it yourself, have a look at
>io/fileio/current/src/select.cxx where select() is defined. poll() is just
>a variant. If you did that, obviously it would be good for it to be
>contributed back: http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/faq.html#contrib_how
>
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