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

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:07:00 -0400

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The thing is, we cannot change existing select semantics, and the question
> is whether what most soft-realtime wants is actually select, or whether
> people really want a "waittimeofday()".

Actually, I'd like a
waitonmonotonicallyincreasingnonadjustablehighres64bittime().

Chris

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