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:On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:44:23AM -0700, Simon Schubert wrote:
:> corecode 2005/08/03 05:44:23 PDT
:>
:> DragonFly src repository
:>
:> Modified files:
:> lib/libc/sys select.2
:> Log:
:> Note that select behaves like sleep(3) when no descriptors are being
checked.
:
:Please correct it to point to usleep or nanosleep, that comparision is
:much more appropiate.
:
:Joerg
Even nanosleep and usleep are wrong, since nanosleep uses a struct timespec
and select uses a struct timeval.
Select's timeout is rounded up to the nearest clock tick, while (our)
nanosleep's timeout tries to be a lot more precise.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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