From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 17 21: 8:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB60210E6F for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:08:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 10DLhR-0007Wp-00; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:08:33 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.2/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA65110 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:11:24 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:05:02 MST." <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> References: <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> <199902180458.VAA64976@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:11:24 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: : Please review the following change to the select(2) man page: Actually, please review these changes. They are closer to english than the last one. Warner Index: select.2 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/imp/FreeBSD/CVS/src/lib/libc/sys/select.2,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.11 select.2 --- select.2 1998/08/24 01:09:34 1.11 +++ select.2 1999/02/18 05:09:01 @@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ by the .Fn select call. +Other systems may modify timeout, but no current ones do it by default. +A future, different system call might modify timeval, but too much legacy +code exists which depends on this behavior. +Therefore, +.Fn select +will likely never change to modify timeout. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn select To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message