On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Javier on 2/10/2010 3:29 PM: >> select() call with specified timeout in argument 5 is not altered on return >> when time is up. >> >> on windows code below returns: should be 0.0 but we have: 5.0 >> on linux code below returns: should be 0.0 but we have: 0.0 > >For Linux compatibility, it would be nice to alter the argument. But >POSIX is clear that the current cygwin behavior of leaving the argument >unchanged is also compliant.
I believe actually made a conscious decision not to alter the arguments when I first wrote select(). However, times have changed so it probably makes sense to alter it to be more linux-like now. I'll look into doing that. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
