Date: 29 Jul 2003 08:17:06 +0200
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: djgpp & ncurses
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> From: "bdeck" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:12:37 +0200
> >
> > I have wondered if poll could be implement as a wrapper for select. Have you
> > thought about or tried that?
> >
> > I'd like to implement poll for the DJGPP 2.04 release, because it's part of
> > the POSIX standard.
> 
> I am not very familiar with the difference. I only know what DJGPP has and
> what it doesn't. However, Thomas Dickey seemed to indicate that the
> difference is quite significant, and that he has seen "many more successful
> poll implementations (in reading multibyte keys w/ ncurses) than select
> implementations".

I don't see why Thomas would say that the difference is
``significant''.  AFAICS, adding `poll' to DJGPP should be easy,
either as a wrapper for `select', or as a separate module reusing most
of the code in `select'.  I think this would be a welcome addition.