On 1/12/10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm not sure whether poll(2) should be called for this purpose. But
> > poll(2) and select(2) seem to often come together in the existing code.
> > We should follow such custom?
>
>
> Yes. poll() is usually more efficient, so it's preferred, but not all
> platforms have it. (On the other side, I think Windows might have
> only poll and not select.)
FYI: on PL/Proxy we use poll() exclusively and on platforms
that dont have it (win32) we emulate poll() with select():
http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/plproxy/plproxy/src/poll_compat.c?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
End result is efficient and clean #ifdef-less code.
Something to consider.
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marko
