The brown M&M test is: can you call poll() on a terminal device?
This lack of functionality has been in existence since Mac OS X's inception. It's the reason why a cross-platform software _always_ has to support both select() and poll() to check if a user is typing on the terminal -- select() just for Mac OS X, and poll() for every other system. Wouldn't it be nice if we could standardise on poll()?
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Pelias does geocoding (turns addresses, POIs, and administrative regions into coordinates), reverse geocoding (given coordinates, finds nearby POIs, addresses, neighborhood, city, county, state, country), full-text search, and autocompletion. You can also import CSV to use your own custom data.
I run it on an extra PC, where it powers about 20 twitter bots that turn lat/lon coordinates of aircraft into descriptions like "flying over Silver Lake, Los Angeles, 0.5 miles from Circus Liquor."
This lack of functionality has been in existence since Mac OS X's inception. It's the reason why a cross-platform software _always_ has to support both select() and poll() to check if a user is typing on the terminal -- select() just for Mac OS X, and poll() for every other system. Wouldn't it be nice if we could standardise on poll()?
Compare what macOS manpages say:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...
> BUGS: The poll() system call currently does not support devices.
with the requirements for certification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799.2024edition...
> The poll() and ppoll() functions shall support regular files, terminal and pseudo-terminal devices, FIFOs, pipes, and sockets.
Is the bug fixed in macOS 15 or is this certification yet another load of horseshit?