Dan Nelson once stated:
=In the last episode (Jan 23), Mikhail Teterin said:
=> =FreeBSD is clearly not capable of hard real-time. If I remember
=> =correctly, neither are any of the operating systems from which you
=> =quoted man pages. That makes *all* of those man pages inaccurate.
=>
=> In other words, we found a flaw in the most (all?) Unix
=> Inimplementations? cluding FreeBSD. Alright.
=
=If you want to call it a flaw, then yes. The kernel always has priority
=over user processes.
I understand. And this will also happen in case of a simple printf().
What I see, however, with select() is that it _consistently_ takes 9-10
msecs longer then specified to return. On an idle machine... Someone
mentioned, that the number of ticks is, actually, rounded up. Perhaps,
it should be rounded down?
-mi
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