Winbindd limited by select

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Wed Feb 12 23:01:38 GMT 2003


On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:23:14PM +0000, jra at dp.samba.org wrote:

> > Better still why not use poll() instead of select() in the winbindd
> > main loop?
> 
> Because not everyone has poll() :-(. Some have poll build on select.
> Some people have poll() and it doesn't work.... So many bugs, so
> little time... :-).

OK so theoretically we could use poll() if it's there or fall back to
select() modulo an unknown number of bugs on an unknown number of
systems.

It does sound like a lot of work doesn't it?  )-:


Tim.


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