The poll(2) and select(2) manual pages say that the system calls perform
poorly if there is overlapping monitoring. This note can be removed as
the kqueue-based code does not suffer from select collisions.

OK?

Index: lib/libc/sys/poll.2
===================================================================
RCS file: src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -p -r1.36 poll.2
--- lib/libc/sys/poll.2 18 Aug 2018 16:55:30 -0000      1.36
+++ lib/libc/sys/poll.2 13 Nov 2021 06:07:54 -0000
@@ -361,9 +361,3 @@ Similarly, the
 and
 .Dv POLLRDBAND
 flags are also equivalent.
-.Pp
-Internally to the kernel,
-.Fn poll
-and
-.Fn ppoll
-work poorly if multiple processes wait on the same file descriptor.
Index: lib/libc/sys/select.2
===================================================================
RCS file: src/lib/libc/sys/select.2,v
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -p -r1.43 select.2
--- lib/libc/sys/select.2       13 Aug 2020 01:00:03 -0000      1.43
+++ lib/libc/sys/select.2       13 Nov 2021 06:07:54 -0000
@@ -291,9 +291,3 @@ before and after the call to
 .Fn select ,
 and using
 .Xr timersub 3 .
-.Pp
-Internally to the kernel,
-.Fn select
-and
-.Fn pselect
-work poorly if multiple processes wait on the same file descriptor.

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