[sane-devel] Use poll() instead of select() in backends

[Nils Philippsen]

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 08:10 -0400, m. allan noah wrote:
> Given that poll() is reported to be flaky on certain versions of OSX,
> we need to at least keep select() as an option.

Do I understand this correctly that we'd somehow need to distinguish
between:

- systems where poll() is available and working
- systems where poll() is available but doesn't do the right thing under
certain circumstances (what are these (*)?)
- systems where poll() is unavailable

(*): I've heard about grief with poll() on OS/X 10.4 but that's long out
of support, and that poll() on current OS/X wouldn't trigger on events
with zero-sized data. Do we care about that latter case, or are there
additional ways poll() on OS/X can fail/not do what we want/expect?

Nils
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