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On *BSD and macOS, it has been largely superseded by kqueue in high performance applications.[2]OnLinux, it has been superseded by ppoll and epoll.[2]
poll
– System Interfaces Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 4 from The Open Grouppoll(2)
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