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poll.2: Clarify discussion of wrapper function emulation 

Clarify that glibc (as well as old libc) provides emulation
using select(2) on older kernels that don't have a poll()
system call.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" 2006-07-01, mtk, Added POLLRDHUP + various other wording and
.\" formatting changes.
.\"
.TH POLL 2 2012-05-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH POLL 2 2012-05-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
poll, ppoll \- wait for some event on a file descriptor
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -313,15 +313,12 @@ There was no space to allocate file descriptor tables.
The
.BR poll ()
system call was introduced in Linux 2.1.23.
The
On older kernels that lack this system call,
.\" library call was introduced in libc 5.4.28
the glibc (and the old Linux libc)
.BR poll ()
library call was introduced in libc 5.4.28
(and provides emulation using
.BR select (2)
if your kernel does not
have a
.BR poll ()
system call).
wrapper function provides emulation using
.BR select (2).
The
.BR ppoll ()