Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267334AbUJGPTR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:19:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267388AbUJGPSb (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:18:31 -0400 Received: from ts2-075.twistspace.com ([217.71.122.75]:31924 "EHLO entmoot.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267334AbUJGPOw (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:14:52 -0400 Message-ID: <001801c4ac88$c9da6780$161b14ac@boromir> From: "Martijn Sipkema" To: "Alan Cox" , Cc: , , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" References: <20041007135110.16475.qmail@science.horizon.com> <1097156530.31754.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll(2) man page, likewise. Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:14:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 20 From: "Alan Cox" > On Iau, 2004-10-07 at 15:26, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Wrong. It is a Linux kernel mistake to fail to implement a common > > system call properly. > > Actually if you dig deeply only pselect() has posix guarantees, and we > don't implement that. pselect() and select() are both in POSIX and should behave the same except for different arguments.. --ms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/