Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys select.2

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

On 03.08.2005, at 17:13, Matthew Dillon wrote:

Even nanosleep and usleep are wrong, since nanosleep uses a struct timespec

    and select uses a struct timeval.


    nanosleep's timeout tries to be a lot more precise.

Select's timeout is rounded up to the nearest clock tick, while (our)

cheers
  simon

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What should we write? It's just to note that select() does in fact block for the time specified, like sleep, usleep and nanosleep do (= interruptible sleep).

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