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

Wed Aug 3 08:34:58 PDT 2005

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.

    Select's timeout is rounded up to the nearest clock tick, while 
(our)
    nanosleep's timeout tries to be a lot more precise.
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).

cheers
  simon
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