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poll (Unix)
System call

poll is a POSIX system call to wait for one or more file descriptors to become ready for use.

On *BSD and macOS, it has been largely superseded by kqueue in high performance applications. On Linux, it has been superseded by ppoll and epoll.

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References

  1. Charles M. Hannum; The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. (1998). "poll, pollts — synchronous I/O multiplexing". BSD Cross Reference. NetBSD. /wiki/NetBSD

  2. "Connection processing methods". nginx.org. http://nginx.org/en/docs/events.html

  3. "Connection processing methods". nginx.org. http://nginx.org/en/docs/events.html