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NAME
poll.h — definitions for the poll() function
SYNOPSIS
#include <poll.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <poll.h> header shall define the pollfd structure, which shall include at least the following
members:
int fd The following descriptor being polled.
short events The input event flags (see below).
short revents The output event flags (see below).
The <poll.h> header shall define the following type through typedef:
nfds_t An unsigned integer type used for the number of file descriptors.
The implementation shall support one or more programming environments in which the width of nfds_t is no
greater than the width of type long. The names of these programming environments can be obtained using
the confstr() function or the getconf utility.
The <poll.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants, zero or more of which may be OR'ed
together to form the events or revents members in the pollfd structure:
POLLIN Data other than high-priority data may be read without blocking.
POLLRDNORM Normal data may be read without blocking.
POLLRDBAND Priority data may be read without blocking.
POLLPRI High priority data may be read without blocking.
POLLOUT Normal data may be written without blocking.
POLLWRNORM Equivalent to POLLOUT.
POLLWRBAND Priority data may be written.
POLLERR An error has occurred (revents only).
POLLHUP Device has been disconnected (revents only).
POLLNVAL Invalid fd member (revents only).
The significance and semantics of normal, priority, and high-priority data are file and device-specific.
The following shall be declared as a function and may also be defined as a macro. A function prototype
shall be provided.
int poll(struct pollfd [], nfds_t, int);
The following sections are informative.
APPLICATION USAGE
None.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSO
The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2008, confstr(), poll()
The Shell and Utilities volume of POSIX.1‐2008, getconf
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition,
Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc
and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event
of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
http://www.unix.org/online.html .
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