Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761997AbXEORey (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 13:34:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761776AbXEORep (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 13:34:45 -0400 Received: from squawk.glines.org ([72.36.206.66]:51454 "EHLO squawk.glines.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761933AbXEORen (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 13:34:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:34:40 -0700 From: Mark Glines To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: select(0, ..) is valid ? Message-ID: <20070515103440.696577b7@chirp> In-Reply-To: <1179250159.2836.117.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1179250159.2836.117.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> Organization: Glines.org X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.0 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Useless-Header: yay! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 514 Lines: 16 On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:29:18 -0700 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Hi, > > Is select(0, ..) is a valid operation ? select(0, ..) is rather commonly used as a portable sleep() with microsecond granularity. Disabling it will break lots of things. Mark - 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/