Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:21:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <200001242121.NAA92301@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000124160232.11974B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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:The "maximum interval to wait for the selection to complete" isn't
:really the maximum, but more like the lower bounds of the time to
:wait for the selection.
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:Dan Eischen
:eischen@vigrid.com
It's definitely a maximum, because select() can return much sooner if
one of the I/O events being waited on occurs. If you call it a minimum
you imply that select() will not return until at least the specified
amount of time elapses, which is incorrect. Just because it may go
slightly over the specified time when no I/O events are pending does not
change anything -- FreeBSD is not a hard-realtime system and programmers
understand that. If anyone were to actually get confused by this, they
have to go back to school.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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