Damn I missed that. To my defense, this bug should be also mentioned in the POLLNVAL section. As it stands now, it looks like the only reason for POLLNVAL is a closed file descriptor.
Sorry and thanks. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: > Elazar Leibovich <elaz...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Try to open /dev/null, and then to poll the file descriptor. Neither > > in the man page nor in the standard I see anything preventing you to > > poll on /dev/null, yet, it does not work on Mac OS X. You get a > > POLLNVAL. > > From > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/poll.2.html > : > > BUGS > The poll() system call currently does not support devices. > > Your code works fine on Linux, but I suppose you know that. > > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org >
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