Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:44:49 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange select(2) misbehaviour when linked with -pthread Message-ID: <200107261544.f6QFinw03993@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:59:31 BST." <20010726115931.A93134@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20010726115931.A93134@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <3B5EA985.458B39B7@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <20010726115931.A93134@walton.maths.tcd.ie> David Malone writes: : Or don't work as the case may be ;-) Posix doesn't actually require : select to be able to deal with large wait times (I think 31 days was : the figure I found in the SUSv2 spec). Have a look at: 31 days, interestingly enough, is very close to the amount of time it takes for a 32 bit counter to wrap in milliseconds. Oh, wait, that's 49 days and a little bit. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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