On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Simon Toedt <simon.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Glenn Fowler <g...@research.att.com> wrote: >> >> it looks like today we will get the final ksh93u+ beta out >> poll(1) integration will be with some ksh93v- alpha > > This is more a historical question: The POSIX standard defines the > read, echo and printf commands for the shell. > Why was poll overlooked? It's obvious and very useful. Was there a reason?
Uhm... no clue. My guess is that noone thought so far that a shell may actually handle multiple _external_ I/O streams at thre same time (working on multiple file streams opened at script runtime is common... but poll(2) is mainly for networking stuff...). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
