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Old 02-13-2008
POLL function fails under AIX v5.3
I am having a strange problem with the poll() routine. I compiled a module under AIX 5.2 using the poll routine, it worked fine. When the OS was upgraded to AIX 5.3 the poll routine return an error code.

Here is a summary of the code:

#define MAX_EVENTS 300
long eventCount;
POLLIST(MAX_EVENTS,MAX_EVENTS) pList; /* defined in the the /usr/include/sys/poll.h file */
.......
.......
eventCount = poll( &pList, (long)((MAX_EVENTS<<16)|(MAX_EVENTS)),
(long) 0 );


The above call returns -1 and the global variable errno is set to 22 (EINVAL) under AIX 5.3, BUT works fine under AIX 5.2.

I have not changed the code. Can you anyone explain why this is no longer working?

Thanks,
Tahir
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

poll

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)