[asterisk-dev] About ast_waitfor_nandfs() in channel.c

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> It uses poll() to wait for data. It could just as well use select() 
> instead, is that correct?

select() is limited in the number of FDs it can monitor.  In fact 
sometime before 1.0.x select() was replaced by poll() in many places in 
Asterisk.