Re: bug in select() (was Re: {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout)

Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org)
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:45:00 +0000


Davide Libenzi wrote:
> ( if Tms > 0 )

Which is unfortunate, because that doesn't allow for a value of Tms ==
0 which is needed when you want to sleep and wake up on every jiffie
on systems where HZ >= 1000. Tms == 0 is taken already, to mean do
not wait at all.

-- Jamie
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