From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 0:13:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B7E113CF for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA19769; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:13:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:13:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902180813.AAA19769@apollo.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change References: <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> <199902180458.VAA64976@harmony.village.org> <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think it's a good clarification. -Matt Matthew Dillon : :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