Re: bug in select() (was Re: {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout)

From: Mark Mielke (mark@mark.mielke.cc)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 05:52:01 EST

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:45:00AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > ( if Tms > 0 )
> Which is unfortunate, because that doesn't allow for a value of Tms ==
> 0 which is needed when you want to sleep and wake up on every jiffie
> on systems where HZ >= 1000. Tms == 0 is taken already, to mean do
> not wait at all.

To some degree, isn't this the equivalent of yield()?

mark 

-- 
mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca/markm@nortelnetworks.com __________________________
.  .  _  ._  . .   .__    .  . ._. .__ .   . . .__  | Neighbourhood Coder
|\/| |_| |_| |/    |_     |\/|  |  |_  |   |/  |_   | 
|  | | | | \ | \   |__ .  |  | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__  | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all
                       and in the darkness bind them...

                           http://mark.mielke.cc/

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jan 31 2003 - 22:00:18 EST