Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout

From: Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 14:07:00 EST

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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The thing is, we cannot change existing select semantics, and the question
> is whether what most soft-realtime wants is actually select, or whether
> people really want a "waittimeofday()".

Actually, I'd like a
waitonmonotonicallyincreasingnonadjustablehighres64bittime().

Chris

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