From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: "G.raud" <graud-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: select.2: s/minimum/maximum/
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:22:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5215BC38.4040201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130819230019.190010-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org>
On 08/20/13 01:00, G.raud wrote:
> In this part of the manpage:
>
> " The timeout argument specifies the minimum interval that select()
> should block waiting for a file descriptor to become ready. "
This isn't correct (though maybe there is room for a better wording).
The 'timeout' places a ceiling on how long the call will block,
but that ceiling has the *minimum* value provided by the argument.
See what I mean?
Cheers,
Michael
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2013-08-19 23:00 select.2: s/minimum/maximum/ G.raud
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2013-08-22 7:22 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
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2013-08-22 15:38 G.raud
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2013-08-23 8:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-08-23 15:10 G.raud
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2013-09-04 8:40 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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