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Subject: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 09:31 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I don't see the need for higher precision in this API and a change is
> confusing.  There is nanosleep() for people who only want a delay and
> that can be done with high precision.

If that's the case, might one enquire as to why pselect() has a struct
timespec instead of a struct timeval?

Or would the answer just depress me?
> 
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dwmw2