(Given I'm commenting on the content of the online manual on a Linux
system, I'm adding and followingup-to comp.os.linux.misc.)
On 2026-08-11, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:41:30 -0300, Anton Antimo wrote:
For select (called unix-fast-select in SBCL), see sb-unix.
select(2) is considered an archaic way of doing things these days,
because of its ABI limitations. The modern way is poll() <https://manpages.debian.org/poll(2)> (POSIX) or even epoll() <https://manpages.debian.org/epoll(7)> (Linux-specific).
The online manual here (a GNU/Linux system) says:
"poll, ppoll - wait for some event on a file descriptor"
Perhaps that should be rewritten. Reading further, it's not singular,
but that description with "*A* file descriptor" does make it sound like
poll is not a suitable replacement for select.
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