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SubjectRe: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:29:37PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 09:10 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > poll()'s timeout value is measrued in milliseconds. Using a 32bit
> > value, as implied by using 'int' for the type, limits the mximum
> > timeout to be 2^31-1 milliseconds, which means about 24 days.
>
> Ah, OK. I thought you were talking about the timespec in pselect(),
> because that's what you quoted.
>
> Yes, we should make the time for ppoll() a 64-bit value, so you can
> request a time period longer than 24 days. Shall we also switch to
> microseconds?

I think passing const struct timeval * or const struct timespec *
(depending if you want micro or nanoseconds) is better and what
other functions use for timeouts, then passing int64_t.

Jakub
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