poll_fd
poll_fd(fd, timeout_s::Real; readable=false, writable=false)
Monitor a file descriptor fd for changes in the read or write availability, and with a timeout given by timeout_s seconds.
The keyword arguments determine which of read and/or write status should be monitored; at least one of them must be set to true.
The returned value is an object with boolean fields readable, writable, and timedout, giving the result of the polling.
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abspath, basename, chmod, countlines, cp, ctime, dirname, download, evalfile, expanduser, fdio, filemode, filesize, functionloc, gperm, homedir, include_string, isabspath, isblockdev, ischardev, isdir, isdirpath, isexecutable, isfifo, isfile, islink, ismount, ispath, isreadable, issetgid, issetuid, issticky, iswritable, joinpath, less, lstat, mkdir, mkpath, mktemp, mktempdir, mtime, mv, normpath, operm, poll_fd, poll_file, readall, readcsv, readdir, readdlm, readlines, readlink, realpath, relpath, rm, splitdir, splitdrive, splitext, stat, symlink, tempdir, tempname, touch, truncate, uperm, watch_file, writecsv,User Contributed Notes
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