Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:06:26 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, eischen@vigrid.com Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <200001242006.PAA35725@misha.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <000001bf669f$94c4ec70$021d85d1@youwant.to> from David Schwartz at "Jan 24, 2000 11:16:57 am"
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David Schwartz once wrote: > The man page is correct and the implementation is correct. Several people, said the man pages are broken: Bruce Evans on Dec 28: > If timeout is a non-nil pointer, it specifies > a maximum interval to wait for the selection > to complete. This is a bug in the man page. It is so poorly worded that it is broken. "maximum" here means "minimum" in the case where no selected event occurs. Daniel Eischen on Jan 23: You have to guarantee that the actual time is greater than or equal to the amount of time specified. Warner Losh on Jan 23: : Could you provide the chapter/verse number of : where POSIX spec contradicts the man pages? It : will help me make my case on the TCL forum, : since the TCL developers remain under the : mistaken assumption, that select() may return : earlier, but never later than specified. Somewhere in the archives have a pointer to the unified unix spec for select. Might want to look for it. A useful regular expression might be http://www.*/select.*. This is becoming ridiculous. Somehow, I get a feeling a bunch of people manage to agree with each other on a subject they express exactly opposite opinions. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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