Is it a feature or a bug of Tiger that poll() does not support stdin?
It's an unfortunate but known bug in Tiger, introduced by switching
poll() from an underlying select-based mechanism to a kqueue-based
mechanism. Kqueue in OS X does not work on devices such as
terminals (regardless of what file descriptor they're assigned).
There's an issue with binary compatibility inside the kernel that
prevented it being fixed in Tiger, but hopefully it can be sorted
in Leopard because it's an ongoing headache.
Is that why the POLLNVAL bit is set on return?
Regards,
Justin
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