Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933112AbXEORln (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 13:41:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756691AbXEORle (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 13:41:34 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:34527 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756230AbXEORld (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 13:41:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:43:45 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: select(0, ..) is valid ? Message-ID: <20070515184345.0431d80e@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <1179250159.2836.117.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1179250159.2836.117.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 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: 437 Lines: 15 On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:29:18 -0700 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Hi, > > Is select(0, ..) is a valid operation ? Yes. It's a fairly classic old BSD way to do timeouts Alan - 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/