On 11/27/17 2:47 PM, Ángel wrote: > Also there's the issue that select() _may_ modify the object pointed to > by the timeout argument [POSIX]. But it may not, in which case this > would end up oversleeping. > > On such system, doing eg. > sleep 9 & time sleep 10 > > would end up sleeping 19 seconds.
I can't see how, since the two sleeps would be performed by different processes, using two separately-initialized select calls. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/