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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:51:04 -0600
From:      Alex Nash <nash@mcs.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: poll(2)
Message-ID:  <32B49CF8.41C67EA6@mcs.com>
References:  <199612152053.NAA23897@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:

> This would be the modification of the remaining time for a non-null,
> non-zero timeval struct?
> 
> You should note that this will not work for much of the software in the
> known universe... I think even Linux backed this one out after it caused
> problems with ...oh... Netscape.

Unless this has changed very recently, I don't think this is true.
I just looked at Linux 2.1.5 and it still seems to return time 
remaining.

Peter, if you do change the semantics of select(), you might also
want to yank out the extra code in the Linux emulator's select().

Alex



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