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I was just countering the patronising tone of the post to which I replied.
Hmm. I didn't want it to come off this way, but you made fun of funny nixers in the first place, so you probably deserved it :P
But the primary problem was the O(n) inefficiency of pselect.
Yes, that sounds right (unlike some of their objections to epoll).

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Re^9: Allowing user to abort waitpid
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 08, 2016 at 15:52 UTC
    but you made fun of funny nixers in the first place, so you probably deserved it :P

    Absolutely! :)

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