Hi Rik > More importantly, all gtk+ programs, as well as most databases and other > system daemons have a poll() loop as their main loop. not only gtk+, may be all modern GUI program :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html