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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:45:00 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com>,
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Subject: Re: bug in select() (was Re: {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout)
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> ( if Tms > 0 )

Which is unfortunate, because that doesn't allow for a value of Tms ==
0 which is needed when you want to sleep and wake up on every jiffie
on systems where HZ >= 1000.  Tms == 0 is taken already, to mean do
not wait at all.

-- Jamie
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