always read in RAND_poll() if we can't use select because of a too

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  Changes between 0.9.8b and 0.9.8c  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
+     possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
+     undesirable limitations.
+     [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]
+
   *) Disable "ECCdraft" ciphersuites more thoroughly.  Now special
      treatment in ssl/ssl_ciph.s makes sure that these ciphersuites
      cannot be implicitly activated as part of, e.g., the "AES" alias.
@@ -1289,6 +1294,11 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.7j and 0.9.7k  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
+     possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
+     undesirable limitations.
+     [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]
+
   *) Disable rogue ciphersuites:
 
       - SSLv2 0x08 0x00 0x80 ("RC4-64-MD5")