Re: [PATCH] HP-UX does not have select.h

> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
>>> I'd be cautious about using poll().  AFAIK MacOSX 10.2.8 does not have 
>>> poll(), and IIRC I had problems finding it in MinGW, too.  I know, we 
>>> use it in daemon, upload-archive and upload-pack, but these are not 
>>> typically functions performed by a client, so I would not know if it 
>>> worked on my (now-dead) iBook, or on msysGit.
>> So what? If we use poll() already in daemon, upload-archive and 
>> upload-pack, and no MacOSX 10.2.8 user has spoken up with a proposal for 
>> replacement, then yet another use won't raise a complaint, either.
> 
> daemon, upload-archive and upload-pack are server-side functions, so they 
> are substantially less well tested.

>> And if it were a problem for msysGit, I wouldn't have suggested it ;) 
>> The particular use in pager.c would be inside #ifndef __MINGW32__ #endif 
>> anyway.
> 
> We still did not integrate the 'daemon' branch of 4msysgit, correct?