Andi Kleen wrote:
> Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de> writes:
> > In a similar case I noticed that SA_RESTART is ignored for select().
> > IMO a very strange behaviour! Is the xview clock binary really the
> > only reason???
>
> If select was restarted it would wait its timeout again.
> With a SIGALRM timer in just the right period you could make a select()
> block forever, even if it was supposed to timeout.
This sounds at least like a reason *g* But with a sane behaviour of
select regarding the timeval (return the remaining timeout as linux
normally does) this shouldn't happen.
Ciao, ET.
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