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Hi Linus, On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Yes, so everybody really using select assumes it's _at least_ X >> seconds... So where's the problem? > > Have you tried to _do_ this? I doubt you have, since you think it > works well already. Well enough for me and my customers :-) > The fact is, that if you're doing soft-realtime, you end up having > to call gettimeofday() a lot more than you should. OK, I do not do (soft-)realtime. For non-realtime needs the current scheme with relative timeouts is easier to use since you do not need to call gettimeofday at all. Greetings Christoph - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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