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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:32:39 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:48:10 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:

> The thing is, we cannot change existing select semantics, and the
> question is whether what most soft-realtime wants is actually select, or
> whether people really want a "waittimeofday()".

NOT waittimeofday.  You need a *new* measure which can't be set forwards
or back if you want this to be sane.  pthreads has absolute timeouts (eg.
pthread_cond_timedwait), but they suck IRL for this reason.

Of course, doesn't need any correlation with absolute time, it could be a
"microseconds since boot" kind of thing.

Rusty.
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