Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout

Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.org)
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:14:41 -0600 (MDT)

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This is extremely useful behaviour. POSIX is broken here. Fix it in the
C library or somewhere it doesn't harm the clueful

Why is it useful? For signal handlers to see how much waiting time is
left?
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