From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:07:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3EFAD4.C1D2DE4A@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207241142320.2117-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The thing is, we cannot change existing select semantics, and the question
> is whether what most soft-realtime wants is actually select, or whether
> people really want a "waittimeofday()".
Actually, I'd like a
waitonmonotonicallyincreasingnonadjustablehighres64bittime().
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 19:04 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
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 [this message]
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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