> I understand. And this will also happen in case of a simple printf().
> What I see, however, with select() is that it _consistently_ takes 9-10
> msecs longer then specified to return. On an idle machine... Someone
> mentioned, that the number of ticks is, actually, rounded up. Perhaps,
> it should be rounded down?
You can't round down and still obey POSIX semantics. "at least" will
not be satisfied. You have to guarantee that the actual time is greater
than or equal to the amount of time specified.
Dan Eischen
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