From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2004-12-26, VBDis  wrote:   
   > Im Artikel <10smjstknaoqg2e@corp.supernews.com>, "F Verbeek"  [dot] com> schreibt:   
   >   
   >>In general IO programs are written non-blocking, which is why VDBs   
   >>suggestion is bad and Markus suggestion is good programming habit.   
   >   
   > That's correct, the final implementation should use events as provided by the   
   > (yet unknown) asynchronous API of the I/O system. Polling code instead   
   requires   
   > no assumptions about the environment and application ;-)   
      
   Hmm, select is blocking and sync. Yet is no problem, since it can wait on   
   multiple events.   
      
   So not async is not automatically polling in a busy loop.   
      
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