Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404) Subject: use poll() X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 280 poll() is probably a better interface to use than select() for our library and KDC. It allows for larger file descriptor numbers without a huge amount of storage (e.g., like on AIX 5.2). Also, it appears that some systems are implementing select() in terms of poll() these days.