Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 13 2005 - 06:07:25 EST


On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:41:41AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:16 +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> > So, please, consider merging the patches.. ppoll is something else, I never
> > heard about it, but pselect is widely known.
>
> It just seemed silly to implement pselect() without doing ppoll() at the
> same time.

Yes, it kinda makes sense. Question to Uli: would you put ppoll() into
glibc as GNU extension? If not adding the syscall is rather poinless
unfortunately.

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