> This problem affects any single use of select(): instead of using an 
> ad-hoc wrapper in each module, it would probably make sense to add a 
> higher level selector class to the select module which would fallback on 
> the right syscall (i.e. poll() if available, or /dev/poll on Solaris-
> like).

Doesn't Solaris have poll()?  If so then I don't see why one would want to use /dev/poll in the single fd case.