On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:28:37PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> `man select` on my system explicitly states; 
> 
> 	"On Linux, timeout is modified to reflect the amount of time
> 	not slept; most other implementations do not do this."
> 
> Therefore, it should always be modified unless it returns instantly
> because there is activity on the fd. 

Exactly, and when the timeout expires, it should be modified to be
{0,0}, not some random large value.  

Anyway, it turned out it's a known bug, and a relatively minor one
too...  

-- 
Roger Espel Llima, espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html

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