Re: select() clobbering the timeout

Roger Espel Llima (espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr)
Mon, 10 May 1999 22:06:22 +0200

On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:28:37PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> `man select` on my system explicitly states;
>
> "On Linux, timeout is modified to reflect the amount of time
> not slept; most other implementations do not do this."
>
> Therefore, it should always be modified unless it returns instantly
> because there is activity on the fd.

Exactly, and when the timeout expires, it should be modified to be
{0,0}, not some random large value.

Anyway, it turned out it's a known bug, and a relatively minor one
too... 

-- 
Roger Espel Llima, espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html


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