On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:16:49PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
> I would chalk this up to a design problem with qmail. If they had used
> poll() instead of select(), they wouldn't have had this problem.
Wow. Qmail, not perfect. It boggles the mind.
> Although,
> I don't think poll() was available when qmail 1.03 was originally written
> (wasn't it in 1999 or something?).
For which OS? I'm pretty sure Solaris has had it for a very long time,
FreeBSD's poll() man page is dated Sept 7, 1996 with a notation that it
originally came from AT&T System V UNIX. As for Linux:
AVAILABILITY
The poll() systemcall was introduced in Linux 2.1.23. The poll()
library call was introduced in libc 5.4.28 (and provides emulation
using select if your kernel does not have a poll syscall).
kernel 2.1.23 was released on 28-Jan-1997
libc 5.4.28 was released on 10-May-1997
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