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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:48:34 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/13644 
Message-ID:  <200001240348.UAA48859@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:14:09 EST." <200001240214.VAA45195@rtfm.newton> 
References:  <200001240214.VAA45195@rtfm.newton>  

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In message <200001240214.VAA45195@rtfm.newton> Mikhail Teterin writes:
: 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?

Select(2) only guarantees that it will sleep no less than the time
specified for the timeout.  Rounding down will break this.

Warner


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