Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:13:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change Message-ID: <199902180813.AAA19769@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> <199902180458.VAA64976@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.990218151309.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org>
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I think it's a good clarification.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
:
: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
:
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