Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:32:15 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com, mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net Cc: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, davids@webmaster.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jasone@canonware.com Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <200001240332.WAA28924@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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> I understand. And this will also happen in case of a simple printf(). > What I see, however, with select() is that it _consistently_ takes 9-10 > msecs longer then specified to return. On an idle machine... Someone > mentioned, that the number of ticks is, actually, rounded up. Perhaps, > it should be rounded down? You can't round down and still obey POSIX semantics. "at least" will not be satisfied. You have to guarantee that the actual time is greater than or equal to the amount of time specified. Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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