Structs
Bitmap used by pselect()
and select
to indicate the event to wait for.
Event types that can be polled for.
A scheduling scheme whereby the local process periodically checks until the pre-specified events (for example, read, write) have occurred. The PollFd struct in 32-bit style.
Functions
ppoll()
witout sigmask
. See ppoll
for more information.
Wait for one of the events in poll_fd_p
to happen, or the time limit to run out if any.
Unlike the function family of select()
which are basically AND’S,
poll()
’s act like OR’s for polling the files.
Poll each of the file discriptors until certain events.