On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > Google indicates that the Mac OSX poll error is with POLLOUT and we're > just using POLLIN so we should be safe there. Beware what you read on the Internet - I can give you code which shows it happening for POLLIN on Mac OS X Leopard. Regards, Alistair