Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:19:02 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: djgpp & ncurses
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> From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 29 Jul 2003 16:20:11 GMT
> 
> > 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.
> 
> ( nor do I - except that I observe that on some platforms one or the other
> of the two functions does not work well ;-)

Yes, I know, but I think this is due to subtleties of Unix system
calls that are irrelevant to DJGPP platforms.  DOS's simplicity is
sometimes a blessing ;-)