select.poll.poll should use ppoll when it's available #142434
Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
ppoll is an extended version of poll that lets you set the timeout with nanosecond precision (it also supports setting a signal mask, but that's not important right now). It's available on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and probably other Unix-likes.
It would be useful if the Python poll function would transparently use ppoll on systems where it is available to provide timeouts with nanosecond precision (as opposed to the default millisecond precision).
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
No response