Re: {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:41:29 +0100


Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes:

|> (Davide), IMHO epoll should decide whether it means "at minimum" (in
|> which case the +1 is a requirement), or it means "at maximum" (in
|> which case rounding up is wrong).

Since Linux isn't a RTOS you can't meet "at maximum". POSIX says "poll ()
shall wait at least timeout milliseconds"

Andreas.

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