Re: Patch for a bug in server/select.c

[Alexandre Julliard]

Bang Jun-Young  writes:
> According to the manpage, NetBSD implementation of poll(2) is different
> from historical one in that a given fd may not cause poll to return with
> an error. I'm not sure if this is the case, however.

I'm not sure I understand what they mean in the manpage. Could you
write a small test program to determine the exact behavior WRT invalid
fds?  Particularly interesting would be to determine if poll actually
sleeps waiting for something, or if it returns POLLNVAL at once.