Poll (Unix)

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poll is a POSIX system call to wait for one or more file descriptors to become ready for use.[1]

On *BSD and macOS, it has been largely superseded by kqueue in high performance applications.[2] On Linux, it has been superseded by ppoll and epoll.[2]

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