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

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 13:48:10 EST


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Typical soft real-time code looks a bit like this pseudo-code (excuse
> the bugs :-):

Yup, looks familiar.

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()".

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.

                Linus

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