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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