From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 12 03:47:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA26688 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bbs.mpcs.com (bbs.mpcs.com [209.101.88.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA26682 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hg@cally.n2wx.ampr.org) Received: from pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (cc1017255-a.srst1.fl.home.com [24.3.122.197]) by bbs.mpcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/MPCS spamzap) with ESMTP id GAA25291; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:47:28 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (8.9.2/8.8.2/n2wx) id GAA21308; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:47:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from cally.south.mpcs.com (cally.n2wx.ampr.org [172.16.0.6]) by pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (8.9.2/8.9.2/n2wx) with ESMTP id GAA21300; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:46:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hg@cally.n2wx.ampr.org) Received: (from hg@localhost) by cally.south.mpcs.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id GAA02357; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:46:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hg) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:46:58 -0500 (EST) From: Howard Goldstein Message-Id: <199902121146.GAA02357@cally.south.mpcs.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC In-Reply-To: <199902101738.KAA14521@usr07.primenet.com> Reply-To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In muc.lists.freebsd.hackers, you wrote: : > > > Matthew Dillon writes: : > > > > The problem is that linux updates the timeval structure on return, : > > > > telling you how much time is left. : : Linux doesn't do this in the default implementation any more. They : have a seperate system call that still does this. This would save me a gettimeofday() call and some math if we had a call for this too. : [...] : When writing new code. Yes, for that. Realtime signals would help almost as much, perhaps in a more portable way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message