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

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:30:57 +0100

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Like your example, the only uses I've had personally (DVD playback) have
> really had an empty select, so it wasn't really select itself that was
> horribly important.

All the real examples I've encountered are waiting on file descriptors
too -- and occasionally also signals.

-- Jamie
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