Re: [bug-gnulib] poll.h replacement

[Bruno Haible]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2006-03-03:
> On powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0, poll is not deemed acceptable: the test in
> m4/poll.m4 fails because polling on /dev/null does not work.  It does
> work to poll on regular files, though.  Polling on /dev/tty does not
> work either.

Thanks for the report. I'm changing poll.m4 so that when cross-compiling
(i.e. when the direct test with /dev/null or /dev/tty is not possible),
the test fails for AIX.

Bruno