Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> It is the same as that in FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Beyond them, every OS
> has its own hack -- there are several flavors of /dev/poll out there
> for example.

Are there?  The Solaris and HP-UX /dev/poll APIs appear to be the
same, although I've barely used them.  Are Linux, AIX et al different?

Regards,

Giles