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From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>
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To: boris@cs.tu-berlin.de, jmg@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/45291: kevent(2) ignores timeout if nevents == 0
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Synopsis: kevent(2) ignores timeout if nevents == 0

State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: jmg
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 13 00:46:53 PDT 2003
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to quote the man page: If timeout is a non-NULL pointer, it specifies
a maximum interval to wait for an event,

The behavior is correct since you wanted to wait for 0 events, and since
it has delivered all the events it can (none), it returns.  Unless provide
with good reason (or maybe a patch to the manpage to document this feature?)
I will close the PR in 5 days.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=45291