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iopause(3)						     Library Functions Manual							iopause(3)

NAME

       iopause - check for file descriptor readability or writability

SYNTAX

       #include <iopause.h>

       int iopause(iopause_fd** x,unsigned int len,
		   struct taia deadline,struct taia stamp);

DESCRIPTION

       iopause checks for file descriptor readability or writability as specified by x[0].fd, x[0].events, x[1].fd, x[1].events, ..., x[len-1].fd,
       x[len-1].events. If x[i].events includes the bit IOPAUSE_READ, iopause checks for readability of the  descriptor  x[i].fd;  if  x[i].events
       includes the bit IOPAUSE_WRITE, iopause checks for writability of the descriptor x[i].fd; other bits in x[i].events have undefined effects.

       iopause	sets  the IOPAUSE_READ bit in x[i].revents if it finds that x[i].fd is readable, and it sets the IOPAUSE_WRITE bit in x[i].revents
       if it finds that x[i].fd is writable. Beware that readability and writability may be destroyed at any moment by other processes with access
       to the same ofile that x[i].fd refers to.

       If there is no readability or writability to report, iopause waits until deadline for something to happen. iopause will return before dead-
       line if a descriptor becomes readable or writable, or an interrupting signal arrives, or some system-defined amount of time passes. iopause
       sets revents in any case.

       You must put a current timestamp into stamp before calling iopause.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

       The current implementation of iopause uses the poll function if that is available. On some systems, poll needs to dynamically allocate ker-
       nel memory; when not much memory is available, iopause will return immediately, and will report (often incorrectly) that no descriptors are
       readable or writable. This is a kernel bug, and I encourage vendors to fix it.

       If  poll is not available, iopause uses the select function. This function cannot see descriptor numbers past a system-defined limit, typi-
       cally 256 or 1024; iopause will artificially pretend that those descriptors are never readable or writable.

       Future implementations of iopause may work around these problems on some systems, at the expense of chewing up all available CPU time.

       Both poll and select use relative timeouts rather than absolute deadlines.  Some kernels round the timeout down to a multiple  of  10  mil-
       liseconds;  this can burn quite a bit of CPU time as the deadline approaches. iopause compensates for this by adding 20 milliseconds to the
       timeout.

SEE ALSO

       select(2), poll(3), taia_now(3)

																	iopause(3)

POLL(2) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   POLL(2)

NAME

       poll - wait for some event on a file descriptor

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/poll.h>

       int poll(struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout);

DESCRIPTION

       poll is a variation on the theme of select.  It specifies an array of nfds structures of type
	       struct pollfd {
		       int fd;		 /* file descriptor */
		       short events;	 /* requested events */
		       short revents;	 /* returned events */
	       };
       and  a  timeout	in  milliseconds. A negative value means infinite timeout.  The field fd contains a file descriptor for an open file.  The
       field events is an input parameter, a bitmask specifying the events the application is interested in.   The  field  revents  is	an  output
       parameter,  filled  by  the  kernel with the events that actually occurred, either of the type requested, or of one of the types POLLERR or
       POLLHUP or POLLNVAL.  (These three bits are meaningless in the events field, and will be set in the revents field whenever the  correspond-
       ing  condition is true.)  If none of the events requested (and no error) has occurred for any of the file descriptors, the kernel waits for
       timeout milliseconds for one of these events to occur.  The following possible bits in these masks are defined in <sys/poll.h>
	   #define POLLIN      0x0001	 /* There is data to read */
	   #define POLLPRI     0x0002	 /* There is urgent data to read */
	   #define POLLOUT     0x0004	 /* Writing now will not block */
	   #define POLLERR     0x0008	 /* Error condition */
	   #define POLLHUP     0x0010	 /* Hung up */
	   #define POLLNVAL    0x0020	 /* Invalid request: fd not open */
       In <asm/poll.h> also the values POLLRDNORM, POLLRDBAND, POLLWRNORM, POLLWRBAND and POLLMSG are defined.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, a positive number is returned, where the number returned is the number of structures which have  non-zero  revents  fields  (in
       other  words,  those  descriptors  with events or errors reported).  A value of 0 indicates that the call timed out and no file descriptors
       have been selected. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

       EBADF  An invalid file descriptor was given in one of the sets.

       ENOMEM There was no space to allocate file descriptor tables.

       EFAULT The array given as argument was not contained in the calling program's address space.

       EINTR  A signal occurred before any requested event.

CONFORMING TO

       XPG4-UNIX.

AVAILABILITY

       The poll() systemcall was introduced in Linux 2.1.23.  The poll() library call was introduced in libc 5.4.28 (and provides emulation  using
       select if your kernel does not have a poll syscall).

SEE ALSO

       select(2), select_tut(2)

Linux 2.1.23							    1997-12-07								   POLL(2)