Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:48:10 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout |
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Typical soft real-time code looks a bit like this pseudo-code (excuse > the bugs :-):
Yup, looks familiar.
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()".
Like your example, the only uses I've had personally (DVD playback) have really had an empty select, so it wasn't really select itself that was horribly important.
Linus
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