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From: "Martijn Sipkema" <martijn@entmoot.nl>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: <linux@horizon.com>, <aeb@cwi.nl>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll(2) man page, likewise.
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:14:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001801c4ac88$c9da6780$161b14ac@boromir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097156530.31754.40.camel@localhost.localdomain>

From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> On Iau, 2004-10-07 at 15:26, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Wrong. It is a Linux kernel mistake to fail to implement a common
> > system call properly.
> 
> Actually if you dig deeply only pselect() has posix guarantees, and we
> don't implement that.

pselect() and select() are both in POSIX and should behave the same
except for different arguments..


--ms



      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-07 13:51 linux
2004-10-07 14:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-07 13:42   ` Alan Cox
2004-10-07 16:14     ` Martijn Sipkema [this message]

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