X-Git-Url: https://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fpoll.texi;h=ec1bdda9cd7c635e7247e77dbafc2402e4aa1ff1;hb=6e5f53c09490a510344a65d26f5e3989a048fcdf;hp=da619b99ddf9153287196f66aafc48d3b66759ce;hpb=48e7c1cff9531ce0fe05108ea7ec69f2d20472b5;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/poll.texi b/doc/posix-functions/poll.texi index da619b99d..ec1bdda9c 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/poll.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/poll.texi @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. +mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS, HP NonStop. @item This function doesn't work on special files like @file{/dev/null} and ttys like @file{/dev/tty} on some platforms: @@ -27,4 +27,8 @@ created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors. Under Windows, when passing a pipe, Gnulib's @code{poll} replacement might return 0 even before the timeout has passed. Programs using it with pipes can thus busy wait. + +@item +Under HP NonStop, file descriptors other than sockets do not support +POLLHUP; they will return a "readable" status instead. @end itemize