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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:42:10 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: select(2) proposed change 
Message-ID:  <199902180742.RAA27123@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:11:24 -0700"
References:  <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org>

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On Wednesday, 17th February 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

>Actually, please review these changes.  They are closer to english
>than the last one.

>+Other systems may modify timeout, but no current ones do it by default.

I am possibly displaying my ignorance, but I thought linux did this 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.

I would prefer to keep the fire and brimstone warning.  select() should
be changed to do the subtraction.

Stephen.


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