On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Arguably, select(2)'s timer *should* be a delta timer, rather than an > endpoint timer, but... absolute, or relative? The answer depends on the > application, doesn't it?
Absolutely absolute. Applications should be written to accomodate early returns from select(). [Of course, nobody but _nobody_ seems to bother coding with the Unix paradigm of returning EINTR or similar results rather than restarting the system call in mind.] Later, scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
