OS X poll breakage (Was: Please help test recent changes)

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at sudo.ws
Wed Jan 12 09:30:09 AEDT 2022


On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:12:18 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> The linked-to post says that there’s an open Apple bug that
> both poll(2) and kqueue(2) on anything in /dev/ are broken.

The reason poll(2) is broken is that it is implemented in terms of
kqueue(2).  If Apple fixes kqueue(2) for character devices poll
would probably start working...

 - todd


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