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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