From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org, alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:38:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207200038.g6K0cZO12086@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207190952.g6J9q4I07044@sic.twinsun.com> from "Paul Eggert" at Jul 19, 2002 02:52:04 AM
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/select.html>
> says that 'select' may modify its timeout argument only "upon
> successful completion". However, the Linux kernel sometimes modifies
> the timeout argument even when 'select' fails or is interrupted.
This is extremely useful behaviour. POSIX is broken here. Fix it in the
C library or somewhere it doesn't harm the clueful
You should raise this with the standards committee instead
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-20 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200207171430.g6HEUvY23619@aztec.santafe.edu>
2002-07-19 9:52 ` Paul Eggert
2002-07-20 0:38 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-20 5:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-21 15:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-24 13:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-07-24 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-24 19:07 ` Chris Friesen
2002-07-24 23:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-07-25 6:32 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-25 18:31 ` george anzinger
2002-07-28 5:40 ` David Schwartz
2002-07-25 16:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-25 17:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-07-21 16:00 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-07-21 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-21 17:51 ` dean gaudet
2002-07-22 3:59 ` Edgar Toernig
2002-07-22 6:51 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-07-21 16:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-20 3:59 dank
2002-07-21 3:34 Peter T. Breuer
2002-07-28 10:33 linux
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