Is it OK to poll() a device file descriptor

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> writes:

> Try to open /dev/null, and then to poll the file descriptor. Neither
> in the man page nor in the standard I see anything preventing you to
> poll on /dev/null, yet, it does not work on Mac OS X. You get a
> POLLNVAL.

>From http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/poll.2.html:

BUGS
     The poll() system call currently does not support devices.

Your code works fine on Linux, but I suppose you know that.

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org