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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:05:02 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   select(2) proposed change
Message-ID:  <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:58:50 MST." <199902180458.VAA64976@harmony.village.org> 
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Please review the following change to the select(2) man page:

Index: select.2
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/imp/FreeBSD/CVS/src/lib/libc/sys/select.2,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 select.2
--- select.2	1998/08/24 01:09:34	1.11
+++ select.2	1999/02/18 05:02:28
@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@
 by the
 .Fn select
 call.
+Other systems may modify timeout, but no current ones do it by default.
+A future, different system call might modify this change, but too
+much legacy code exists which depends on this behavior.
+Therefore,
+.Fn select
+will likely never change to modify timeout.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn select

Warner


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