Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:46:58 -0500 (EST) From: Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@mpcs.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <199902121146.GAA02357@cally.south.mpcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199902101738.KAA14521@usr07.primenet.com>
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In muc.lists.freebsd.hackers, you wrote: : > > > Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes: : > > > > The problem is that linux updates the timeval structure on return, : > > > > telling you how much time is left. : : Linux doesn't do this in the default implementation any more. They : have a seperate system call that still does this. This would save me a gettimeofday() call and some math if we had a call for this too. : [...] : When writing new code. Yes, for that. Realtime signals would help almost as much, perhaps in a more portable way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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