David Schwartz once wrote:
> The man page is correct and the implementation is correct.
Several people, said the man pages are broken:
Bruce Evans on Dec 28:
> If timeout is a non-nil pointer, it specifies
> a maximum interval to wait for the selection
> to complete.
This is a bug in the man page. It is so poorly
worded that it is broken. "maximum" here means
"minimum" in the case where no selected event
occurs.
Daniel Eischen on Jan 23:
You have to guarantee that the actual time is
greater than or equal to the amount of time
specified.
Warner Losh on Jan 23:
: Could you provide the chapter/verse number of
: where POSIX spec contradicts the man pages? It
: will help me make my case on the TCL forum,
: since the TCL developers remain under the
: mistaken assumption, that select() may return
: earlier, but never later than specified.
Somewhere in the archives have a pointer to the
unified unix spec for select. Might want to look
for it. A useful regular expression might be
http://www.*/select.*.
This is becoming ridiculous. Somehow, I get a feeling a bunch of people
manage to agree with each other on a subject they express exactly
opposite opinions.
-mi
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