Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 08:38 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> And change it to expect a 64bit value I hope...

64-bit value for which? For seconds? Do we need to support timeouts of
longer than 4 milliard seconds? We can't currently come close to that
anyway -- we're limited to LONG_MAX / HZ seconds, and if the user asks
for more than that then it appears to be silently switched to an
infinite timeout.

> As long as there is a configuration where the timeout value is not
> modified, it doesn't matter.  That is the case for select() using a
> personality switch.

I think it would be best to behave likewise for pselect().

-- 
dwmw2

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