OLS: On how user space sucks

Posted Jul 28, 2006 17:45 UTC (Fri) by sandmann (subscriber, #473)
In reply to: OLS: On how user space sucks by Viddy
Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks

> Wow. I'm not a particularly good coder, but my understanding is that if it polls like a large chunk of the desktop programs do, generally, you've done it wrong. I know of the sleep() and usleep() functions, and I'm pretty sure could figure out callbacks.

Uh, are you saying that using poll() is wrong?