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Date:      10 Feb 1999 15:30:07 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC
Message-ID:  <xzp1zjybabz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:07:44 -0800 (PST)"
References:  <199902092246.PAA10658@usr02.primenet.com> <199902100403.MAA55849@spinner.netplex.com.au> <19990210085847.A11710@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <199902100907.BAA79553@apollo.backplane.com>

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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.

Yup. I wish FreeBSD did that - the man page already states that one
shouldn't rely on tv not being modified, so it shouldn't break POLA.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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