Yes Rick, I'm asking this "indefinitely" issue. Is there anything that handle this NULL situation a signal, or etc.? How does Linux or FreeBSD behave?
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Metin KAYA wrote: >> >> How select(2) will behave if I give the "utimeout" parameter as >> NULL? > According to the man page: > If timeout is not a null pointer, it specifies the maximum interval to > wait for the selection to complete. System activity can lengthen the > interval by an indeterminate amount. > If timeout is a null pointer, the select blocks indefinitely. > To effect a poll, the timeout argument should not be a null pointer, but > it should point to a zero-valued timeval structure. > -- Rick C. Petty -- Metin KAYA EnderUNIX Software Developer Endersys Software Engineer http://www.EnderUNIX.org/metin http://www.Endersys.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
