POLLING

Polling

Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output, and is also referred to as polled or software-driven .

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polling

Noun

  1. the action of taking a poll
  2. A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer

Verb



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