Re: what is the difference between poll and epoll ?

to wait on a particular event based on the file descriptor. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9167752/how-does-the-poll-function-work-i... http://linux.die.net/man/3/poll look at the example if u don't understand the man page: http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/133/write-a-function/ and this comes with explanation + example: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/357/ On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:20 AM, horseriver <horserivers@gmail.com> wrote:

hi:

what is the function of a file's poll function ?

thanks!

-- Regards, Peter Teoh