From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261440AbVFMJQK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:16:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261445AbVFMJQK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:16:10 -0400 Received: from outpost.ds9a.nl ([213.244.168.210]:26817 "EHLO outpost.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261440AbVFMJQE (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:16:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:16:01 +0200 From: bert hubert To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: Linus Torvalds , jnf , Alan Cox , David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls. Message-ID: <20050613091600.GA32364@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mail-Followup-To: bert hubert , Ulrich Drepper , Linus Torvalds , jnf , Alan Cox , David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , akpm@osdl.org References: <1118444314.4823.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1118616499.9949.103.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42AD2640.5040601@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42AD2640.5040601@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:22:56PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > pselect is portable, just not to current and old Linux systems. It's in > POSIX for a while and the other Unixes have the interface. Indeed - it has been documented since the days of Stevens at least. All unixes that matter have it. >>From the application side, I pretty much really want pselect to work. It is an embarassment to have a broken implementation, if we really think pselect sucks we should deprecate it in glibc. So, please, consider merging the patches.. ppoll is something else, I never heard about it, but pselect is widely known. Thanks. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services