From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 15 13:17:36 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA00896 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA00891 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:17:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA23897; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:53:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199612152053.NAA23897@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: poll(2) To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:53:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <590svj$3dp$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Dec 15, 96 01:03:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I did some code to do this about 6 months ago, it's still in my checked > out -current kernel and still works. I had seen OpenBSD's code (a lot) > so it's not purely independent, but it is quite different in certain > areas. While I was there, I got carried away and implemented the feature > described in the "BUGS" section right at the end of the select(2) man page. This would be the modification of the remaining time for a non-null, non-zero timeval struct? You should note that this will not work for much of the software in the known universe... I think even Linux backed this one out after it caused problems with ...oh... Netscape. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.